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of tlic hall is ^('o^ruphical and hy states, lii addition there is a special 

 exhihit ot" Mississippi \'alle\' potten' in tlie wall cases and the DoiifZilass 

 t\'pe sjx'ciiiien series in the ca^o to the left. 



In the adjoiiiiuj^ t(nver room ai<' the inij)leineuts and carvinj!;s made 

 1)\- the earl\- inhabitants of western lMiro|)e. Tlie.se are arran^;ed in an 



cN'olutionary series. I)e«iinnin<i" with the so-called eoliths 

 „ in the hrst case on the left, and continuinji; through 



Europe ^^'*' '^''^'''<>^i'^ stages of the i)aleolithic ])eri()d to the neoliths 



of more modern times. This series, showin*;" the jjjradually 

 im|)ro\in«i skill and artistic tast<' of ])riniitive man, re))re.sents at 

 least two hundred and fifty thousand years of man's early history, 

 dui'in<i which time I^urope ])asse(l through alternating warm and 

 frigid conditions as the great glacial ice ca]) crept down from the 

 north and receded. This changing climate was accomi)anie(l by 

 corresponding changes in the animals associated with man and on 

 which he largely lived. Some of these are rei)resented by the i)aint- 

 ings on the walls copied from the cav(»s of northern Spain and southern 

 France where, soon after the final retreat of the great glacier, man 

 left us illustrations in color of the bison, mannnoth, reindeer and horse 

 of that dav. 



PREHISTORIC STONE IMPLEMENTS 



