THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 



MONTHLY. 



JULY, 1913 



ANCIENT MAX, HIS ENVIKONMENT AXD HIS ART 



By GEORGE GRANT MacCURDY 



ASSISTANT PEOFESSOB OF AECHEOLOGT IX TALE UNIVERSITY 



THE relation of culture to the environment is always a fruitful 

 theme for discussion. To minimize the difficulties in the way of 

 reconstructing the environment of the earliest races of man would be to 

 deny the all-pervasive influence of environment as a factor in human 

 development. We are so accustomed to think in terms of our own sur- 

 roundings that any other set strikes us at once as strange and unreal. 

 This is particularly true when we attempt at one fell swoop to divest 



Fig. 1. A Geeat Mousteeiax Rock Shelter, where a female skeleton of the 

 Neanderthal type vjas recently found. Photographed by G. G. MacCurdy. 



