MAN THE CAVE DWELLER 
western Europe is concerned, Neanderthal man disap- 
pears completely from the scene never to return. Whether 
he was in part absorbed and in part exterminated by the 
far superior Cro-Magnon race, or whether he died out 
from other causes, we can not as yet say with certainty.! 
Beyond doubt contact, with intermarriage between the 
two races, did occur. The spread of civilized man over so 
much of the globe at the expense of less advanced races 
during the past few centuries shows us what usually hap- 
pens in such cases. The lower culture, even though 
destined in the long run to be entirely destroyed by the 
higher, yet borrows from the latter many of its features, 
particularly in the domain of warfare. 
In like manner the unmistakable Aurignacian influence 
visible in certain classes of Mousterian artifacts may very 
probably be traced to the time when the Cro-Magnon 
race was spreading over western Europe, absorbing, driv- 
ing out, or killing off Neanderthal man as it advanced. 
Perhaps, too, the undoubted resemblance in the burial 
customs of the two races is due, in part at least, to this 
cause. In central Europe the Mousterian epoch is im- 
mediately followed, not by the Aurignacian, but by the 
Solutrean, which would indicate that the Cro-Magnons 
for some reason did not penetrate that far. But even 
here the Neanderthal race finally disappears and is suc- 
ceeded by the bearers of the Solutrean culture, who ap- 
pear to have been the race of Briinn or Predmost. That 
the latter, notwithstanding their high skulls and their 
faces of modern type, should display certain traits recall- 
ing the Neanderthalers may perhaps be due to contacts 
at this time. 
It is possible that Neanderthal man may have survived 
for a while longer in a few other regions. At one time or 
another he inhabited not only Europe but also parts of 
10On this subject the author accepts the views of many eminent prehistorians, not- 
withstanding that Dr. Hrdlicka, as will appear in the following chapter, inclines to think 
the Cro-Magnon the lineal descendant of Neanderthal man. 
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