MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
great care and with close attention to measurements of the 
originals. Hence, so far as the restoration of the fleshy 
covering of the bones is concerned, they may be accepted 
as fairly accurate portrayals. But when it comes to 
questions of skin color, of the amount of hair covering the 
body, and other external features, to say nothing of such 
purely artificial ones as the mode of hairdressing and the 
wearing of amulets or skins, we can be guided only by 
inference, analogy, and probability drawn from modern 
savage life. 
THE AURIGNACIAN EpocH 
Neanderthal man and his Mousterian culture, as already 
stated, gave way, in western Europe at least, to the splendid 
Cro-Magnon race, with its vastly superior culture known 
as the Aurignacian. This seems to have developed in 
Africa from another and earlier “industry” known as the 
Capsian. The early Cro-Magnon invaders of Europe ap- 
pear to have advanced from northern Africa toward their 
new homes by way of the land-bridge which then ex- 
tended across the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia to Italy. 
Their movements apparently began while the Wurm or 
last great glaciation still held much of Europe in its grip. 
But it is unlikely that they made any great mass migra- 
tions across wide stretches of country. That was not the 
way in which primitive man gradually occupied the earth. 
Rather, the Cro-Magnons and others advanced slowly, 
season by season, in whatever direction they found the 
hunting good and general living conditions favorable. 
The direction in this particular case happened to be one 
which eventually carried them up through Italy and so into 
southern France; but the movement undoubtedly occu- 
pied many hundreds if not thousands of years before the 
Aurignacians began to spread out over western Europe. 
For they do not seem to have done so until well on in the 
final periods of the Wurm glacial stage. 
The climate at this time was becoming drier and more 
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