MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
Explorations in Palestine, thus auspiciously initiated, 
will continue; some new undertakings are in fact now 
(early in 1929) under way; and Palestine, with other parts 
of Asia Minor, may give much that will complement, 
La Chapelle— 
aux-Saints _ 
European 
Fic. 22. Profile views of the skulls of a modern European, a modern Australian, 
a Neanderthaler (the man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints), and a chimpanzee. After 
Boule 
and perhaps improve, our understanding of conditions in 
western Europe. 
Such are some of the most important discoveries of 
human remains of Neanderthal type associated with the 
Mousterian culture. They have been found over a wide 
range in Europe and Asia. Animals of cold or arctic habit 
accompany them. 
Though displaying certain variations of anatomy, the 
Neanderthal remains present on the whole so well-marked 
a type as fully to deserve assignment to the species Homo 
neanderthalensis rather than to the modern Homo sapiens. 
Indeed it has been remarked by several zoologists that, 
if characters so different occurred in animals other than 
man, they would warrant assignment to a different genus. 
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