242 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP.VII. 



ment as to race is of considerable weight. It is still 

 further strengthened by the identity of art. The articles 

 found in the caves of Britain, Belgium, France, or Swit- 

 zerland differ scarcely more from those used in West 

 Georgia than the latter from those of Greenland or 

 Melville Peninsula. 



From these considerations it may be gathered that 

 the Eskimos are probably the representatives of the 

 Cave-men, and protected within the Arctic Circle from 

 those causes by which they have been driven from 

 Europe and Asia. They stand at the present day 

 wholly apart from all other living races, and are cut 

 off from all both by the philologer and the craniologist. 

 Unaccustomed to war themselves, they were probably 

 driven from Europe and Asia by other tribes in the 

 same manner as within the last century they have been 

 driven farther north by the attacks of the .Red Indian. 



The Cave-men not represented among the present 

 Populations of Europe. 



"What is the relation of the Cave-men to the peoples 

 who succeeded them in Europe ? Did they disappear at 

 the close of the Pleistocene age without leaving any traces 

 behind, or were they absorbed into other races invading 

 Europe in the Neolithic age ? The answer to these 

 questions will depend upon the view which we take of 

 the age of the human skeletons in the caves of Cro- 

 Magnon, Frontal, Furfooz, and Mentone. If we follow 

 those lately published in the Crania Ethniea, and the 

 Materiaux\)j MM. Qua tref ages, Hamy, and Louis Lartet, 1 



1 Quatrefages and Hamy, Crania Ethnica, i. ii. iii. ; MaUriaux, 1874 

 p. 167, 1875 p. 58 ; Louis Lartet, MaMriaux, 1874, p. 167. 



