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type of jaw. 22 These discoveries lead us to believe that 

 a primitive race was widely distributed in Europe, earlier 

 than the cave man in point of time and inferior to him in 

 intelligence and capacity. 



In 1891 to 1892, the island of Java, itself a remnant 



From Birkner, " Der Diluviale Hensch in Europa." 



FIGURE 18. A reconstruction of the Neanderthal Type of Skull. 



of an extended continental mass of remote time, gave up 

 a relic of the nearest to an intermediate form in the 

 series of human descent yet discovered. Here in the 

 center of the island, Dr. Dubois found buried in pleisto- 

 cene beds to the depth of about forty feet below the 

 surface, the upper portion of a skull, a tooth, and a 

 thigh bone. 23 It was fortunate that these most distinc- 

 tive portions of the human frame should have been thus 



22Keane, op. cit., p. 146; and Lucas, F. A. "The Antiquity of Man," 

 Century, vol. 60, pp. 933-934. 

 23 Keane, op. cit. p. 144. 



