PREHISTORIC MAN 45 
SOUTHWEST PAVILION 
PREHISTORIC MAN OF NORTH AMERICA 
Continuing west we pass into the Southwest Pavilion, likewise given 
over to archeology, 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 most probable evidences 
of man’s antiquity 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. 
In the adjoining tower room are the implements and carvings made 
by the early inhabitants of western Europe. These are arranged in an 
evolutionary series, beginning with the so-called eoliths in the first 
case on the left, and continuing through the various stages of the 
paleolithic period to the neoliths of more modern times. This series, 
showing the gradually improving skill and artistic taste of primitive 
man, represents at least two hundred and fifty thousand 
sear secam years of man’s early history, during which time Europe 
Europe passed through alternating warm and frigid conditions as 
the great glacial ice cap crept down from the north and 
receded. This changing climate was accompanied by corresponding 
changes in the animals associated with man and on which he largely 
lived. Some of these are represented by the paintings on the walls 
copied from the caves 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, mammoth, reindeer and horse of that day. 
On either side of the tower entrance are cases devoted to physical 
anthropology. The case on the left illustrates the various types of 
skulls of living man with the measurements on which they are classified. 
On the right is a comparative historical series showing the gradual 
devolopment of the human race. 
