MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
In South Africa works of this character are attributed 
in part to those dwarfish, yellow-skinned, woolly-haired 
little hunters, the Bushmen, themselves undoubtedly a 
very ancient race, now nearly extinct. Moreover, cer- 
tain of the physical peculiarities of the latter people are 
A B C D 
Fic. 16. Aurignacian and modern Bushman comparisons. A, Bushman woman; 
B, Bushman drawing of same; C and D, statuettes in steatite from the Grimaldi 
caves 
shown clearly in the figures of very stout nude women, 
carved from ivory or soft stone, which have been found 
here and there in the Upper Paleolithic of Europe (Fig.16). 
These facts, taken in conjunction with the Negroid traits 
ascribed to the two Grimaldi skeletons just mentioned, 
seem to hint at some African influence on Aurignacian 
art. Any more definite conclusion than this, however, 
we should hardly be justified in drawing as yet. 
At all events we have now reached the point, in our 
backward journey through time, when Aurignacian man 
first appears in Europe and takes the place till then occu- 
pied by the low-grade race of Neanderthal. As far as 
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