MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
physical types of the Old Stone Age is fairly extensive, 
because while people lived and died in caves their bones 
stood a much better chance of being preserved than when 
left lying in the open. Moreover we have definite proof 
that even the lowly Neanderthal race had come to rever- 
ence its dead enough to lay their bodies away in graves, 
where they would be covered with earth at once and thus 
protected from destructive agencies. 
But earlier still, during the Lower Paleolithic, that ex- 
tremely long period embracing the Acheulian, the Chel- 
lean, and the Pre-Chellean epochs, there were men who 
made from stone roughly chipped implements of ever- 
increasing crudeness the further we penetrate back into 
the past. Finally we reach the Eolithic or “Dawn 
Stone” Age, characterized by implements so rough as 
to be barely, if at all, recognizable as the work of human 
hands and brains. Throughout these long earlier ages 
men seem to have lived mainly in the open, often on 
the “‘glacial terraces” described in the last chapter. 
Hence when they died their skeletons stood but lit- 
tle chance of preservation, especially as they appear not 
to have done much, if anything, in the way of burying 
their dead. 
An account of the human types of the later periods, 
when man had already become much what he 1s today, 
forms no part of the plan of the present volume. In the 
present chapter we shall confine ourselves to a discussion 
of the cave-dwelling races of the Old Stone Age, and more 
particularly to some of the finds of human skeletal re- 
mains from the three epochs of the Upper Paleolithic, 
viz., the Magdalenian, nearest our own times; the Solu- 
trean, next earlier; and the Aurignacian, earliest of the 
three. A description of the various industries and above 
all the remarkable art of this time belongs more properly 
in the last section of this book, devoted to man’s cultural 
development. 
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