THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 



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Fig. 7. Homo (Paleanthropus) neandertalensis. Skull and face. Adapted 

 from McGregor and Boule. Two fifths natural size. 



tifully wrought objects whose surrender implied a very real 

 sacrifice on the part of the survivors, together with apparent 

 food, had in greatest probability a belief of some sort in 

 immortality. 



It is in the form of the cranial cavity and of the supra- 

 orbital ridges that the Neandertal skull departs most widely 

 from that of modern man, and it is in these two points that the 



