EXTINCT ANIMALS 



in the sand of the Neanderthal on the Rhine. It 

 seems certain that primitive man had a shal- 

 lower brain than the more recent man. But 

 some of the prehistoric men seem to have been 

 able to draw, and to have exhibited great skill 

 in that art. It is difficult to say whether there 

 was more than one race present at this time, 

 and whether the men of the shallow skulls were 

 the same men who made the drawings. In one 

 of the caves of France inhabited by prehistoric 

 men, and thickly strewn with their chipped 

 flints and with the bones of extinct animals 

 eaten by the men, a piece of a mammoth's tusk 

 has been found with a mammoth carved upon 

 it (Fig. 60) evidently by the men who lived 

 there. We also find the heads of reindeer, 

 carved upon pieces of bone. The photographs 

 reproduced in Figs. 60 and 61 are from drawings 

 of the actual specimens. In Fig. 61 is shown 

 a piece of an antler upon which a reindeer is 

 cleverly outlined. The tuft of hair below the chin 

 is shown, and the great feet and the extra toes 

 are correctly pictured. Clearly the men who 

 drew this reindeer lived with the reindeer. And 

 besides the reindeer, living with those men in 

 the South of France was the great mammoth. 



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