MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
Asia and Africa. But until the prehistory of the two 
latter continents is much better known than it is today, 
we shall not be able to say where he originated or where 
he made his last hopeless stand against men of the modern 
species. 
This much seems agreed upon by most prehistorians— 
that the Mousterian culture appears in Europe at the 
close of the third interglacial period; that it was in part, 
though by no means entirely, a development from the 
previous Acheulian; and that it extended over much of the 
last great glacial stage, that known as the Wurm. Some 
time after the first and more important climax of the 
latter, the career of Neanderthal man came to an end, 
and. that of the Cro-Magnon race began. 
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