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fauna remained the same ; the skulls, so far as known, present 

 little difference ; and even in works of art the distinction is in- 

 validated by grave exceptions, which are intensified by the fact, 

 which the writer has elsewhere illustrated, that in the case of 

 the same people their residences in caves, etc., and their places ^ 

 of burial are likely to contain very different objects from those 

 which they leave in river gravels. 



It is admitted that the whole of these Palaeocosmic men are 

 racially distinct from modern men, though most nearly allied 

 in physical characters to some of the Mongoloid races of the 

 northern regions. Some of their characters also appear in the 

 native races of America, and occasional cases occur, when even 

 the characters of the Cannstadt skull reappear in modern times. 

 The skull of the great Scottish king Robert Bruce was of this 

 type ; and his indomitable energy and governing power may 

 have been connected with this fact. Attempts have even been 

 made ^ to show an intimate connection between the cave men 

 and the Esquimaux of Greenland and Arctic America, but, as 

 Wilson has well shown,^ this is not borne out by their cranial 

 characters, and the resemblances, such as they are, in arts and 

 implements, are common to the Esquimaux and many other 

 American tribes. In many respects, however, the arts and 

 mode of life, as well as some of the physical characters of the 

 Palaeocosmic men of Europe were near akin to those of the 

 ruder native races of America. 



Perhaps one of the most curious examples of this is the cave 

 at Sorde, in the western Pyrenees. On the floor of this cave 

 lay a human skeleton, covered with fallen blocks of stone. 

 With it w^ere found forty canine teeth of the bear, and three of 

 the lion, perforated for suspension, and several of these teeth 

 are skilfully engraved with figures of animals, one bearing the 

 engraved figure of an embroidered glove. This necklace, no 



^ Dawkins, ** Early Man in Britain." 



* Address to Anthropological section of the American Association, 1882. 



