Photograph from Osborn's "Men of The Old Stone Age" 

 THE APE MAX OP JAVA, A PREHUMAN CREATURE WHO LIVED PROBABLY 500,000 



YEARS AGO (SEE PAGE 120) 



the Tertiary, or so-called Age of Mam- 

 mals, came to a close with what is known 

 as the Pliocene period. 



The earth then already bore substantial 

 resemblance to what it is today, although 

 with a warmer climate, and the mammal- 

 ian life, although infinitely richer than at 

 present, included creatures substantially 

 kin to most of those now existing. Lay- 

 men must remember that these different 

 ages or periods merged gradually into one 

 another, and that the names we give them 

 are merely necessary terms of conve- 

 nience. 



The Pleistocene Age followed the Plio- 

 cene. It is sometimes called the Quater- 

 nary. Throughout its duration the world 

 went through many physical changes. 

 Continents rose and fell, became con- 

 nected and again disconnected : mountain 

 chains were worn down and others thrust 



upward ; lakes filled and vanished ; pe- 

 riods of great cold were followed by 

 periods of warmth. 



Because of these changes the waves of 

 life flowed hither and thither. During its 

 early stages this age could appropriately 

 be called the Age of the Horse, the Lion, 

 and the Elephant, for these three beasts 

 in many forms abounded on every conti- 

 nent of the globe except Australia. 



But man was slowly developing from 

 the half-human to the wholly human 

 throughout this immense period of time, 

 and at its close the Age of Alan may 

 fairly be said to have begun. 



THE RECORDS SHOW THAT MAX HAS LIVED 



IX FRAXCE FOR AT LEAST 



100,000 YEARS 



It is in France that the most complete 

 records of prehistoric man are found — 



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