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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 atljoining 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 

 skill and artistic taste of primitive man, represents at 

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

 during which time 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 paint- 

 ings 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. 



Prehistoric 

 Man in 

 Europe 



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PREHISTORIC STONE IMPLEMENTS 



