THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 



MONTHLY. 



JULY, 1913 



ANCIENT MAN, HIS ENVIEONMEXT AND HIS ART 



By GEORGE GRANT MacCURDY 



ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHEOLOGY IX YALE UNIVERSITY 



THE relation of culture to the environment is always a fruitful 

 theme for discussion. To minimize the difficulties in the way of 

 reconstructing the environment of the earliest races of man would be to 

 deny the all-pervasive influence of environment as a factor in human 

 development. "We are so accustomed to think in terms of our own sur- 

 roundings that any other set strikes us at once as strange and unreal. 

 This is particularly true when we attempt at one fell swoop to divest 



Fig. 1. A Great Mousterian Rock: Shelter, where a female skeleton of the 

 Neanderthal type was recently found. Photographed by G. G. MacCurdy. 



