(\s\' of Cozv/T-s/ic//s for C/inniiV, .liiiulrts, clc. 137 



the Cio-Mai^non t\-pc, and that all the bofh'cs had been 

 (lefiiiitel)' interred. The ch'sctn-ery of ct>\vries and the 

 relation of these to the bod}-, forms an interesting;- parallel 

 to the Lauc^erie-l^asse burial referred to above. 



The association of perforated cowrx' shells with men 

 belonr^ini:^ to the C'ro-Ma^non oroup is not witiiout interest 

 when it is remembered tliat these pe()[)le were members 

 of our own species — Homo sapiens, and quite distinct from 

 the earlier Neanderthal people. That they were men 

 callable of formulating^ ideas and endowed with an artistic 

 sense is unquestionable. The skeletons of this race all 

 seem to have been ceremonially interred, which certain 

 writers regard as implying that they were not without 

 some idea of religion. The fact that they used |)crforated 

 shells, teetli, ami pendants, as amulets, also supports this 

 conclu-sion. l^ut, of course, tlie validit}' of the inference 

 depends upon what is meant by the term " religion." 



How this race came into the south of Europe and 

 where it came from is not easy to determine ; but the 

 slender evidence at present available disposes us to look to 

 North Africa as its immediate source, it seen-is possible 

 that these j^eople ma}- have been an early sporadic 

 invasion from, or at least have been in direct or indirect 

 contact with, the region where civilisation first developed — 

 the valley of the Nile and Western Asia. 



The skull of the Cro-Magnon man has s<j man)- points 

 of similarity to that of Neolithic man in l^^ngland, ihat, 

 in defiance of the archctological evidence, the former race 

 was judged at one time to belong to the Neolithic period. 

 Leading authorities now agree in relegating it to an 

 earlier time, which includes the Magdalenian period." 



■*■■ The cukurc of ilic Cio-Magnon nice is certainly ijuilc ilislincl froTU 

 tliat of the Lower rahvoliiliic people — Xeanderihal man, aiui on tlii-accoiinl 

 Dr. Elliot Smiih has suggesteJ tlie term •' Neoanlhro])liic phase of eulture," 

 in order to j^ive specific emphasis' to the piofound hreak in liuman hi^iory 



