NEANDERTHAL MAN 
Europe and certain other portions of the Old World, 
probably toward the close of the third interglacial epoch, 
when the climate was growing colder and more moist. 
With the advent of the last great glacial stage, that of 
the Wiirm, Neanderthal man was compelled to take up 
the life of a cave dweller. 
Of the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal cave dwellers, 
we have a number of more or less complete skeletons, but 
for still earlier culture stages, the Acheulian and others, 
human skeletal remains almost fail us, for the reasons 
given in Chapter VI. Even so, intensively studied as they 
have been, they throw no little light on the remoter past 
of our race and deserve our attention. 
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