Primhuk Man. 7r> 



TIk' men of Solulre seem to have cnleied luu'ope from 

 ihe cast at about the same date, or a little later. .No skulls 

 h -.e been found, to my know ledi^e, associated with the 

 loeautiful laurel leaf Hints of Solutre, but there seems to be a 

 prol)al)iIity thai they were the men of b'urfooz or (irenelle. 

 A" the other races (.\eandcrthaler, Cromaijnon, and .Vegroid) 

 are dolichocephalic, but these men of l^'urfooz were brachv- 

 cephalic and perhaps the Hrst .\siatic immij^ranls bv wav of 

 the Danube and Odessa. 



Durinj^ the i^radual impro\emcnt of diniale which 

 followed on the passini^- away of the Wiirm Ice .\i;e there 

 were ^jrcat chanj^es. In the first place the race of Croma- 

 ijfnon altered their culture. When they arrived in Europe 

 they were in the .Vurignacian stage, but after the W'iirm they 

 advanced to the Magdalenian. With the disappearance of 

 thi' reindeer and steppe horse, ihev seem to ha\e entered on 

 the .\zilian stage of industry R\ this time also the race of 

 Cromagnon seems to have absorbed all that was left of the 

 Xeanderthaler, Solutr^an, and Grimaldi-.Negroid. This, of 

 course, is merelv an hvpothesis. The interval of time between 

 Aurig-nacian and .^zilian is enormous, but \et there is a clear 

 continuitv between .Aurig'nacian and Mag"delenian, and a con- 

 tinuity also, but not so distinct, between Mag^dalenian and 

 Azilian. 



In Eng^Iand there are examples of .\urignacian, Magda- 

 lenian, and Azilian culture. An cngfra\ ing' of a goat or kid 

 with one forefoot lifted up has been recently found by Mr 

 Lewis Abbott, and is a good example of Mag^dalenian. It is 

 with the Azilians that we find the first people in Scotland. 

 During- the ^5-,^o foot beach period they were li\ ing near 

 Oban and on Or(jnsav. .\n Azilian also lost a harpoon in the 

 river Dee at Kirkcudbright, and perhaps a new exploration of 

 the Solwav shore mig^ht reveal fresh evidence ol him. 



I have already sug^g^ested that these .\zilians were the 

 last of the Magdalenian hunters, but of course this is by no 

 means generally admitted. Still, it is difficult otherwise to 

 account for the fact that in I'rance the basis of the population 

 during- the earlier part of the Neolithic period seems to have 

 been distinctlv related to the Cromagnon ra<-e. 



