MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
remain became more difficult to hunt successfully as the 
forests kept on increasing in density. 
Indications, indeed, exist that at this time fishing slowly 
replaced hunting as ‘Hie principal means of gaining a liveli- 
hood. From being an active, courageous hunter of large 
and often highly 
dangerous wild 
animals’) (Crot 
Magnon man 
seems to have be- 
come a fisherman 
and a gatherer of 
shellfish. 
It is likely, too, 
that about this 
time the ances- 
tors of the wide- 
spread “‘Mediter- 
ranean” race of 
today began to 
invade southern 
Fic. 61. Human skull-tops made into cups or bowls, 
probably for ceremonial use. From the cave of Le and western 
Placard, in southwestern France. After Breuil and Europe, 
min 
Obermaier ae g 
from northern 
Africa. These people appear to have brought with them a 
type of culture more advanced in some ways than that of 
the Magdalenians. Perhaps they had a more closely knit 
social organization that enabled them to use their armed 
strength to greater advantage. Or, on the other hand, 
they may merely have appeared in larger numbers and 
simply swamped their predecessors. Their undoubted use 
of bows and arrows, perhaps with poison, may have had 
something to do with their superiority. 
The Cro-Magnon race, however, did not die out entirely. 
Here and there, as skeletal peculiarities clearly show, it 
still survives, in a more or less mixed form, as an element 
of the populations of the present day. 
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