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Dawkins, 187-4 "' : In 1866, Boyd Dawkins, on the basis of the re- 

 semblances between the implements of the Eskimo and those of the 

 later prehistoric man of Europe, advances the idea that the Eskimo 

 were close kin to the palaeolithic man of Europe, before the scientific 

 forum. In his Cave Hunting he says: "Palaeolithic man appeared 

 in Europe with the arctic mammalia, lived in Europe along with 

 them, and disappeared with them. And since his implements are of 

 the same kind as those of the Eskimos, it may reasonably be con- 

 cluded that he is represented at the present time by the Eskimos, for 

 it is most improbable that the convergence of the ethnological and 

 zoological evidence should be an accident."' 



1880 : 0T " The probable identity of the cave men with the Eskimos 

 is considerably strengthened by a consideration of some of the ani- 

 mals found in the caves. * * * 



"All these points of connection between the cave men and the 

 Eskimos can, in my opinion, be explained only on the hypothesis 

 that the}' belong to the same race * * *." 



The cave man : " From the evidence brought forward in this chap- 

 ter, there is reason to believe that he is represented at the present 

 time by the Eskimos." 



Mortillet, 1889 : 98 " Les Groenlandais, au point de vue paleoeth- 

 nologique, presentent un tres grand interet. lis paraissent se relier 

 tres intimement aux hommes qui habitaient l'Europe moyenne pend- 

 ant l'epoque de la Madeleine. lis seraient les descendants directs des 

 Magduleniens. lis auraient successivement emigre vers le pole, aveo 

 l'animal caracteristique de cette epoque, le renne. Habitues aux 

 froids les plus rigoureux de l'epoque magdalenienne, ils se sont re- 

 tires dans les regions froides du Nord. * * * 



" Comme on le voit, il y a la plus grande ressemblance, tant sous 

 le rapport physique et moral que sous le rapport artistique et indus- 

 triel entre les hommes de la Madeleine et les Groenlandais. Cette 

 ressemblance est telle que nous pouvons en conclure que les seconds 

 sont les descendants des premiers." 



Testut, 1889 : 90 "Parmi les races actuelles, celle qui me parait 

 presenter la plus grande analogic avec l'honime de Chancelade est 

 celle des Esquimaux qui vivent encore a l'etat sauvage dans leg glaces 

 de l'Amerique septentrionale. Ils out, en effet. le meme crane que 

 notre troglodyte quaternaire; leur face est constitute suivant le meme 

 type : ils ont, a pen de chose pres, la meme taille, le meme indice pala- 



M Dawkins, Boyd, Cave Hunting, p. 359. London, 1874. 



° T Dawkins, Boyd, Early Man in Britain, pp. 24(1, 241, 24.". London, l^so. 



"Mortillet, G. de, Les Groenlandais descendants des Magdaleniens. Bulletins de la 

 Soci6t6 d'Anthropologie, VI, pp. 8G8-870. Taris, 1883. 



•Testut, It, Becherches anthropologiqaes mm- le squelette quaternaire de Chancelade 

 (Dordosne). Bull. Soc. d'antnrop., Till, pp. 243-244. Lyon, Paris, 1880. 



