272 Reviews — Dr. W. L. II. Duckn-orth^ s Prehistoric Man. 



the many illustrations are necessarily reproduced on a heavier make 

 with a smooth surface ; and it may be safely recommended to those 

 interested in palaeontology and to whom scattered scientific papers 

 may not be available, as a thoroughly up-to-date and agreeable 

 outline of the subject. 



II. — Prehistokic Man. By W. L. H. Duckwoeth, M.A., M.D., 

 Sc.D., University Lecturer in Physical Anthropology, Cambridge. 

 8vo ; pp. 150. Cambridge : University Press, 1912. Price Is. net. 



^HE Antiquity of Man was written by Sir Charles Lyell just half 

 a century ago, and marked an epoch in tlie study of the early 

 human race ; it gave an impetus to and an interest in that subject 

 which have only increased as time has run on, and were never gi-eater 

 than at the present moment. During much of that time the interest 

 centred chiefly around the ancient stone implements which from their 

 indestructible nature have been found in surprising numbers, not only 

 in this country and on the continent of Europe, but in every quarter 

 of the world. The remains of man himself from the deposits where 

 his handiwork has been so abundant have been comparatively few. 

 Indeed, considering the enormous number of animals' bones obtained 

 from Pleistocene deposits, it is remarkable that those of man should 

 have been so seldom recoi'ded. However, during the last ten or 

 fifteen years some most interesting discoveries have been made, and it 

 is chiefly these which are dealt with in the present" volume. It is 

 very fitting that the jubilee of The Antiquity of Man should be 

 marked by the publication of this admirable little book by a master 

 of anthropology, which will certainly serve many students as an 

 introduction to the study of 'prehistoric Man'. 



Limited space (150 pages) has not permitted the author to do more 

 than give a general view of the subject, but he has contrived to 

 condense in that space a large amount of information in a somewhat 

 novel and interesting form. It is reassui'ing at the outset to find 

 that Dr. Duckworth refuses to give "dates in years to the several 

 divisions of time now recognized", and our faith in his judgment in 

 other parts of his book is thereby strengthened. 



In the first place the author reviews the various well-authenticated 

 discoveries of human remains in Pleistocene and earlier deposits during 

 the last fifteen years. And we may here say how much we should 

 have liked to have had a somewhat full account of the peculiarities of 

 the Spy skeletons which have served as a foundation for the characters 

 of the Neanderthal race. 



A novel method of comparing these remains is adopted. Disregarding, 

 for the time, the horizons from which the skeletons have been obtained, 

 these have been grouped according to their greater or less resemblance 

 to the bones of modern men ; and this emphasizes some peculiar points. 

 In the first group are included Pithecanthropus and the Heidelberg 

 jaw, these forming two divisions of a group far removed from modern 

 man, and at the same time occurring in far-off jwr^-Paloeolithic deposits. 

 A second group includes Palaeolithic and modern men ; but these are 

 put in two divisions — {A) The Neanderthal (or La Chapelle) race ; and 



