MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE" 



15 



of a thickness corresponding to averages 

 for the soft tissues of modern men, the 

 approximate contour of the face is ob- 

 tained. Thus we may form an itlea of 

 about how these men would appear in Hfe. 



The discussion of the Piitdowntype, tlie 

 most recent find, deserves notice, for our 

 author does not accept the chronological 

 determinations of the leading English 

 scientists who place it in early Pleistocene 

 times, but regards it as clearly late 

 Pleistocene. The probability of this has 

 been greatly increased by the recent dis- 

 covery of Dr. Gerrit S. Miller, an Amer- 

 ican scientist, that the jaw found with 

 the Piltdown skull is not human. Dis- 

 carding this jaw we have a skullcap that 

 promises to be that of a more advanced 

 man. Had this discovery been a\ailable 

 at the time of writing, our author could 

 have made his case stronger. 



This brings us to an important general 

 conclusion in the book, 

 viz., that no acceptable 

 evidences of man as 

 such occur before the 

 Pleistocene. This con- 

 clusion is in opposition 

 to the views of some dis- 

 tinguished European 

 scientists l)ut is fully 

 supported by faunistic 

 and other correlated 

 data. Reference should 

 1)6 made to the ver\' 

 important correlation 

 chart on page 41 show- 

 ing the geological cli- 

 matic, and faunistic 

 associations with the 

 successive forms of man. 



This chart shows us 

 that the most modern 

 types of ancient men 

 come upon the scene at 

 the close of the last 

 period of glaciation. 



The most distinctive of these was the 

 Cro-Magnon, which we see from the 

 restoration would pass among us today 

 with little counnent. In fact, many cele- 

 l)rated anthropologists believe that the 

 blood of this race still flows in the veins 

 of the Erench of the Dordogne district 

 and elsewhere. However this may be, 

 some of the most distinctive facial char- 

 acters of the Cro-Magnon type are still 

 to be found in parts of Europe. These 

 old Cro-Magnons were a fine race, rather 

 taller and somewhat larger of brain than 

 modern Europeans. 



The author emphasizes the point that 

 it is coincident with the appearance of 

 the Cro-Magnons that the great develop- 

 ment of the most distinctive Palaeolithic 

 culture appears in Europe. The two 

 great periods were the Aurignacian and 

 the Magdalenian, each characterized by 

 a more or less individualized art. 



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The ape-man of Java {Pithecanthropus ereclus). Antiquity estimated at 



500,000 years. It is not improbable that the preliuman races of this remote 



geologic age used more than one natural weapon of wood or stone 



After the restoration by Dr. J. H. McGregor 



