SUBORDER C 



BIMANA 287 



exhibits all its principal features. Fragments, evidently of the same race, 

 found by Kramberger^ in caves at Krapina, Croatia, differ only in the strong 

 rugosity of the enamel on the teeth. ^ It now appears that Neanderthal Man 

 was not closely related to the Tasraanian blacks, as was once supposed. 



Just after Neanderthal Man there lived in Europe races of men which it 

 is difficult to distinguish from those now living. Here belong the skull of 

 Egisheim, Alsace, the skull from the loess, Briinn, and the skull and 

 mandible from Predmost, Moravia, which were certainly contemporaneous 

 with the Mammoth. Still less distinct from existing Man are the skulls, like- 



FiG. 374. 



Bomo rhodesiensis A. S. Woodward. Cave, Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia. Skull. 1/4. 

 (After A. S. Woodward.) 



wise palaeolithic, of Cro-Magnon, Laugerie Basse, and of the Lauter Cave. 

 On the other hand, in the Baouss6 Rousse Cave, near Mentone, human relics 

 have been found, which, according to Verneau, possess negroid characters — 

 retreating chin, prognathism, and broad flat nose. They probably belong to 

 the Magdalenian period. 



In Africa, the only extinct race of Man hitherto recognised is represented 

 by a skeleton found buried in a cave at the Broken Hill mine, northern 

 Rhodesia.^ The skull (Fig. 374) has inflated brow-ridges larger than those of 

 Neanderthal Man, and the face is relatively enormous. It is, however, other- 

 wise typically human, and the leg bones resemble those of existing Man. 

 The geological age is uncertain, for Homo rhodesiensis occurs with the bones of 

 animals such as still inhabit that part of Africa. 



In Australia, one important fossilised skull has been found in the Darling 



^ Kramberger, Gorjanovic K., Der palaolithische Mensch von Krapina in Croatia (Mitteil. 

 Anthropolog. Ges. Wien, 1901, pp. 163-197 ; 1902, pp. 189-216). 



^ Schwalbe, G., Die Vorgeschichte des Menschen. Braunschweig, 1904. 



^ Woodward, A. S., New Cave Man from Rhodesia, S. Africa. Nature, Nov. 17, 1921. — 

 Problem of Rhodesian Fossil Man. Science Progress, vol. xvi., April 1922. — Guide to Fossil 

 Remains of Man in British Museum, ed. 3, 1922.- — Smith, G. Elliot, Brain of Rhodesian Man, 

 Nature, vol. cix., 1922, p. 355. 



