134 THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
twenty lower human teeth were collected, all of them 
showing, in a varying degree, the characteristic form we 
now associate with the Neanderthal race. Over two 
thousand fragments of bones of the animals of the period 
were found, including those of the same ancient form of 
rhinoceros as occurred at Taubach (R. Mercki). The 
cave - bear occurred abundantly ; it was evidently a 
favourite article of diet. The rhinoceros bones had been 
broken open to extract the marrow. The mammoth and 
many other ancient and modern animals were also 
represented. Some of the human bones were charred, 
and some had been apparently split open : on that 
slender basis the Krapina men have been suspected of 
cannibalism. The implements, like those at Taubach, 
are not of the typical Mousterian forms, but experts 
ascribe them to the culture of that period. Some 
evidence, as at La Quina, was noted of bone having been 
shaped for use as a tool ; perhaps wood was also worked. 
Krapina provided, for the first time, an opportunity 
of studying the children and the youth of this strange 
species of man. As is well known, there is a close 
superficial resemblance between the skulls of man and 
anthropoid ape during infancy and childhood. The brutal 
and distinguishing features appear on the ape's skull 
during the years of growth ; the human skull during 
that period changes to a less degree. Hence it is not 
surprising to observe that the children at Krapina were 
in form of head and face more like men of the modern 
type than is the case with their parents. The great 
simian eyebrow ridges assume their massive size and 
characteristic Neanderthal form at maturity. The skulls 
of the women retain the cranial features of the young 
to a greater degree than is the case with the male sex. 
Hence the Neanderthal women were less distinctly 
marked off from the modern type of mankind than was the 
case with the men. Indeed, to account for the variety of 
forms found at Krapina, Professor Klaatsch has suggested 
that some of the individuals may represent captives 
which Neanderthal people had made from their enemies 
