MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
ture, connected in Europe with the advent of Cro-Magnon 
man, could have been developed out of the Mousterian, 
associated closely as it is with the Neanderthal race. On 
the contrary, the Aurignacians, on their arrival in Europe, 
appear to have exchanged a few cultural elements with the 
Mousterians, and even, perhaps, to have mingled with 
them racially to an extremely limited degree, but finally to 
have replaced them entirely. 
The situation may very well have paralleled the case of. 
the American Indian and the European settler, although 
with far less difference in degree of culture. When two 
peoples come into close and prolonged contact, it is not the 
less civilized which does all the borrowing of ideas; the 
more advanced one also almost invariably adopts some 
culture elements from its 
humbler rival. Thus to the 
American Indians, for ex- 
ample, we owe not only vari- 
ous food plants, such as 
potatoes and maize, but also 
such things as tobacco pipes, 
hammocks, snowshoes, can- 
vas canoes (modeled after the 
birch-bark craft of the abo- 
rigines), and the game of la- 
crosse. 
Authorities have divided 
the Aurignacian epoch into a 
Lower, a Middle, and an 
Fic. 44. Aurignacian implements. Upper phase, during all of 
No. 1 is a flint point; 2, a scraper hi h 
seen from the side and end; 3, a which it underwent a steady 
bone point with a cleft base; 4, a development. Like the Mous- 
borer. After de Morgan 
terian but unlike the earlier 
Pre-Chellean, Chellean, and Acheulian industries, the 
Aurignacian based its flint-working mainly on the utiliza- 
tion of flakes and not of cores. Indeed it used far fewer 
core implements than did even the Mousterian, while the 
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