54 PREHISTORIC MAN 



SOUTHWEST PAVILION 

 Prehistoric Max of North Amekk \ 



Continuing west we pass into the Southwest I 'aril ion likewise given 



over to archaeology, in this instance that of North America. Here are 

 examples of ancient pottery, arrow-heads, stone axes and other imple- 

 ments of stone and bone, mostly from burial mounds. The most important 

 of these are the rude implements and fragments of human bones from the 

 Trenton gravels, as these are the oldest indubitable evidences of man on 

 this continent. Notice that the arrangement of the hall is geographical 

 and by states. In addition there is a special exhibit of Mississippi Valley 

 pottery in the wall cases and the Douglass type specimen series in the cases 

 to the left near the center. 



In the tower room adjoining are the stone implements and rude carv- 

 ings of the primitive men who inhabited the caves of South- 

 Pr stone ern Europe at a time when England was a peninsula, the 

 Eurooe north of Europe buried deep under the ice of a glacial epoch 



and the reindeer and the hairy mammoth roamed through 

 Southern France. 



Around the room are copies of paintings — for primitive man was an 

 artist as well as a hunter — on the walls of the caves of Altamira, Font de 

 Gaume, and others, showing the bison, wrongly called aurochs, the mam- 

 moth and the horse of that day, the contemporaries of the Neanderthal man. 



In the table cases are selected series of stone and bone implements ar- 

 ranged according to the accepted chronological periods of paleolithic times. 

 In an adjoining case may be seen casts of the Heidelberg jaw and other 

 ancient skeletal remains. 



