ioo GEOLOGY AND HISTORY 



and even the wild horse still existed, and the time 

 was long before the dawn of any authentic history in 

 that part of the world. These men have somewhat 

 shorter heads than the old Cro-magnon race, and 

 tney are of smaller stature, and with finer and more 

 delicate features. In these respects they resemble 

 the men of the dolmens and long barrows of France 

 and England, and the existing Auvergnats and 

 Basques, and also the Lapps of the far north. Dupont 

 observes that their materials for implements and 

 ornaments came almost entirely from regions to the 

 southward, and hence he infers commerce with tribes 

 in that direction and the existence of enemies in the 

 north. I should rather infer that the men of Frontal 

 had immigrated into Belgium from the south, and 

 that they were a small and poor outlying tribe of a 

 greater people living south of them. Dupont also 

 remarks on their evident care of the dead, a charac- 

 teristic of the early neocosmic men, their belief in a 

 future life, and the absence of warlike weapons, whence 

 he infers that they were a mild and pacific race a 

 conclusion which makes against the idea entertained 

 by some, that they may have displaced the formidable 

 palaeocosmic men by conquest. 



Similar illustrations are afforded by the caves and 

 rock-shelters of France, Switzerland, and Syria, and 

 have convinced many of the ablest archaeologists of 

 the existence of a decided break between the palan- 

 thropic and neanthropic ages. In such a case also it 

 is to be observed that a few decided, positive facts 



