THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 



ice age, who are still relatively close to us when 

 compared to the more distant primitive periods, 

 are not so very much behind in their civilization 

 when compared to certain savage peoples of to- 

 day. Even in our day, there are certain tribes, 

 for instance in South America, who are not 

 familiar with metals, who fashion all their tools 

 and weapons out of stone, horn, or wood, and 

 who therefore are actually living in the "Stone 

 Age" similar to those primitive mammoth hunt- 

 ers. Nevertheless, if one of us had met one of 

 these primtive ice age men, we should have been 

 somewhat startled by the features of that man. 

 For his face, his size and his limbs would have 

 appeared to us perceptibly different from ours, 

 even from those of the savages of the present 

 day. True, no one would have doubted that this 

 was still a "man," but something strange, some- 

 thing divergent, would certainly have startled us 

 in this type of the "Ice-a^e man." We may still 

 reconstruct this man tolerably well from the re- 

 mains of his skeleton. 



It was in 1856 that such genuine human bones, 

 with strangely divergent characteristics, were dis- 

 covered for the first time and scientifically ana- 

 lyzed. It was in the so-called Neander Valley 

 near Dusseldorf (Rhineland). Some working 



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