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THE ANIMALS AND MAN 



and abundance of his tools and specially constructed dwell- 

 ing and burial places; the carved sculptures and pictures 

 and inscriptions on his monuments and walls; the remains 

 of his food and clothing exhumed from graves, all taken 

 together constitute material enough for the archfeologist to 

 begin writing the story of human civilization. It includes 

 the history of the shell-fish eaters of Denmark whose kitchen 

 middens or shell heaps were a thousand feet long, two hun- 

 dred feet wide and three feet thick; of the ancient lake 



dwellers of Switzer- 

 land and Italy and 

 Austria and France; 

 of the Sardinian build- 

 ers of great monu- 

 ments called Nuraghi; 

 of the broch builders 

 of Scotland and the 

 dolmen makers of 

 Brittany and other 

 parts of the world; 

 and of still other an- 

 cient races known to 



Fig. 195. Skull of ancient man from the ■' ^ 



Cave of Spy, Belgium. (After Fraipont's Or Constructions. It 

 photograph of the original in the Museum jg all a fascinating 

 of Liege; from Weltall u. Menschheit.) ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ 



should fail to read some good telling of it, such as Joly's 

 "Man Before Metals." 



As man lives on the earth today he looks upon himself, 

 and rightly, as a kind of organism very far removed from all 

 other kinds and as one of great unity of character. But he 

 recognizes within this large and distinctive unity a consider- 

 able diversity in stature, color, hair-shape, degree of mental 

 development, language and manner of life generally repre- 

 sented by men of various tribes and races. It is said by 



