38 Prehistoric Races. 



thus been named respectively from St. Acheul, 

 Moustiers, Solutre, La Madeleine. 



36. Anthropology, strictly so called, considers the 

 prehistoric man himself; and, finding in certain 

 Anthropoi- fossil bones and skulls a type of man- 

 °*y* kind very different, as it appears, from 



the normal type of the present, it has supplied the 

 evolutionary theory with an important link in the 

 question of our descent. Various signs are noted 

 in those skulls, indicative of an inferiority to the 

 man of our time, physically as well, no doubt, as 

 intellectually. Those found in the caverns of 

 Engis and Neanderthal have become famous, if 

 only for the number of scientific monographs writ- 

 ten upon them, to show forth the low state of hu- 

 manity exhibited in their conformation. For in- 

 stance, they are dolichocephalous, that is to say, 

 long-headed; the longitudinal diameter being ab- 

 normally longer than the transverse diameter. 

 Many other points besides this are brought to bear, 

 anthropologically, on the question of our descent; 

 which is so illumined, in consequence, that, not to 

 mention others, Max Bartels has brought together, 

 in a monograph of nearly one hundred pages, the 

 literature and notices of men with tails. We must 

 confess that we have not made any closer acquaint- 

 ance with this valuable work than to read the bib- 

 liographical record of it in the Smithsonian report 

 for 1885. But that does not dispense us from pay- 





