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Reconstruction of the Head of the Gibraltar Man.

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ANCIENT *

TYPES OF MAN

ARTHUR KEITH
M.D., LL.D. Aberdeen

HARPER X
BROTHERS
LONDON XNEWYORK
 ANCIENT
TYPES OF MAN

BY

ARTHUR KEITH
M.D.. LL.D. Aberdeen
CONSERVATOR OF MUSEUM AND HUNTERIAN PROFESSOR,
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, ENGLAND :

AUTHOR OF "HUMAN EMBRYOLOGY AND MORPHOL

"INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ANTHROPOID AI'FS "
;

ETC.

HARPER & BROTHERS

LONDON AND NEW YORK
45 ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1911
Published December lgn
 INTRODUCTORY
Nthis little book the author has tried to give
I the chief conclusions he has reached after a
prolonged study of the remains of ancient man.
The reader will find that the scale of time which
answers so well for present-day affairs will scarcely
serve him when he comes to place ancient man in
his proper perspective in the past. Instead of
reckoning from a date which is dear to a large
part of the world, viz. the Birth of Christ, he
must begin at the present time and count steadily
backwards into the past. The Metallic period is
the first, one in which men have used copper, bronze,
—
and iron a period which we suppose to extend
about 4000 years back. The metallic period was
preceded by one in which Europeans used finelv
worked stones as implements, and hence it is
usually named the Neolithic Period. It is a
long period, probably six times as long as the
metallic it may be fixed provisionally at 25,000
;

years, but it was very probablv much longer than

that.
Beyond the Neolithic Period we enter the
—
Late Paleolithic Period one which extended
from the Neolithic Period to the end of the Ice

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 INTRODUCTORY
Age ; the length of this period is estimated
provisionally at about 150,000 years. On entering
the Late Paleolithic Period the stone implements
used by Europeans are seen to be of a more
massive and rather rougher type of workmanship.
Animals were then living in Central and South
Europe which have disappeared the reindeer —
and the mammoth. The period just named falls
within the latter part of the geologists' Pleistocene
Period.
The Late Paleolithic Period was preceded by the
Early Paleolithic Period, one of very great but
uncertain length. It lies within the glacial period,
which was broken by at least three temperate
intervals. The Early Paleolithic Period probably
covers the last two of these intervals. Its duration
is variously estimated from 200,000 to 400,000
years. At the beginning of this period the dominant
race of Europe was the Neanderthal type of man ;

at its close Europeans were of the modern type.

Beyond the Early Paleolithic Age is another
stone period — the Eolithic, one in which man used
crudely fashioned flints to serve his various needs.
This period is assigned provisionally to the first
of the interglacial periods, and carries us back
to the beginning of the Pleistocene Period. To the
Eolithic Period a duration of 100,000 to 150,000
years is assigned.
The and Paleolithic Periods of the
Eolithic
Anthropologist correspond roughly to the Pleisto-
 INTRODUCTORY
cene of the Geologist. The duration of the
Pleistocene is estimated here at from 450,000 to
700,000 years, but it is right to state that a much
higher figure is given by most authorities. The
reader will see that the estimates are little better
than guesses, but it is only by making such rough
calculations that we may hope to obtain the facts
on which a more certain estimate may be built.
Beyond the Pleistocene we enter the Pliocene
Period of the earth's History. Whether or not
we have found the remains of Pliocene man is a
question open to debate, but the reader will
still

find the problem discussed in the chapter which

deals with the Fossil Man of Java.
All the illustrations drawn from actual
are
specimens by a method employed by the author,
who is indebted to Mr. William Finerty for
accurately reproducing the original drawings in a
more finished form.
A. Keith.

Royal College of Surgeons, England.

September, 191 1.
 CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. An Ancient English Type from
Essex . i

II. The Tilbury Man . . .10

III. The Dartford Type . . .22
IV. The Galley Hill Man. The
Oldest Human Remains yet
found in England . . . 28

V. The Men of Brunn and Combe-

Capelle . . . . 46

VI. The Grimaldi or Negroid Type

in Kurope . .
59

VII. An Ancient Race of Tall Men :

The Cro-Magnon . . . 64

VIII. The Round-Headed Type . . 74

IX. Heidelberg Man . . 78

X. Krapina Men .
94
 CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
XI. Neanderthal Man . . 101

XII. Neanderthal Man in Belgium and

France . . . . 109

XIII. Gibraltar Man . . .121

XIV. Fossil Man of Java— Pithecan-
thropus Erectus . . 131

XV. Ancient Types of America . . 141

 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Reconstruction of the Headof theGibraltar Man Frontispiece
PAGfc.
FIGUKE ,

1. Diagrammatic Section of Coast Line, showing ex-

posure of prehistoric
the skeleton
surface,
. ...
with position of
2

2. Profile of the Skull of the Essex Woman, with soft

parts indicated. (One-third natural size.) . .
5

3. Section of the strata at Tilbury . .11

4. Profile of the cranium of the Tilbury Man. One-
third natural size. • • . . 18

5. Diagrammatic section across the Thames Valley to

show the terraces and buried river bed . . 23

6. Profile of the Dartford cranium compared with the

" river-bed" type found in LangwithCave. (One-
third natural size.) . • •
25

7. Profile of the skull of the Galley Hill Man . . 36

8. Galley Hill skull— full face. (One-third natural size. ) 38

9. The profile of the Briinn and Galley Hill skulls.

(One-third natural size. ) . . . . 4S

10. Section of the strata in which the ancient human

remains were found at Combe-Capelle . 52

1 1 Profile of the skull of the Combe-Capelle Man com-

pared with the profile of the Galley Hill Man.
(One third natural size. ) . 55
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURE PAGE
12. The site of the discovery of the Cro-Magnon Race.
The foreground represents a section. A — Lime-
stoneCliff. —
B Ledge overhanging the Ancient
Shelter. C — Debris fallen from the cliff in which
D — Alluvium.
the remains were found.
Quatrefages.

Profile of a
)

Cro-Magnon
. . ...
skull with the outline of
(After
65

13.
the Dartford cranium traced on it. (One-third
natural size. ) . . . 68

14. Face view of the Cro-Magnon Race. (One-third

natural size. ) . . . . . 70

15. A diagram of the strata of the pit in which the

Heidelherg mandible was found. A cross marks
the spot. (After Schoetensack.) . . . 80
16. Profile drawing of the Heidelberg mandible (in out-
line) contrasted with the lower jaw of a Modern
European (shaded). (Half natural size). . . 82

17. Profile of the Heidelberg mandible (outline) con-

trasted with that of the mandible of a chimpan-
zee (shaded). (Half natural size. ) . . 84
18. Heidelberg mandible with attempted reconstruction
of the head. (One-third natural size. ) . . 89

19. Profiles of the Heidelberg (outline) and Spy (shaded)

mandibles superimposed for comparison. (Half
natural size.) . . . . . 91

20. Outline of Neanderthal form of skull (shaded) com-

pared with the Galley Hill typs (outline). (One-
third natural size.) . . . . 103

21. Thigh bone of Neanderthal (outline) and modern

man (shaded) contrasted. (One-fifth natural size. ) 106

22. Section of the strata in which the skeleton was

found at Ferrassie . . . .114
 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
FIGURE PAGE
23. Section of a talus or terrace at Gibraltar of similar
formation to the one in which the famous skull
was found. (H. D. Acland.) . . . 123
24. Profile of the Gibraltar cranium (shaded) compared
with modern English skull (outline). (One-third
natural size.) . . . . . 126

25. Face view of the Gibraltar skull. (One-third

natural size. ) . . . . . 128
26. Profile of Gibraltar skull. (One-third natural size. ) 129
27. Section of the bank of the Bengawan, showing the
position of the fossil-bearing stratum in which
the remains of the fossil man were found . .132
28. The profile of the calvaria of the fossil man of Java
(shaded) compared with the Gibraltar cranium
(outline). (One-third natural size. .
135
29. A tracing of the profile of the La Tigra cranium
(outline) compared with the profile of the skull of
the Arkansas loess
natural size.) .
man
.
(shaded).
... (One-third
145
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN

CHAPTER I

AN ANCIENT ENGLISH TYPE FROM

ESSEX

AS I sit down
forms which the body
to write the story of the various
of man
has assumed in
ancient times, I find to determine
it difficult

whether I should begin at the beginning, or at the

end. Were the story now complete, there would
be no difficulty it should be told from the
;

beginning. Some day, no doubt, it will be told

thus, but at present the known phases of man's
early history are so few, so fragmentary and so
isolated, that a survey of the later and better
known phases is needed to place the earlier stages
in their proper perspective. For that reason, I
propose to reverse the usual order, and trace man's
phvsical history from the present into the far past.
The individual selected as the first type is one
discovered in _iQio_ on the ™^* <->f v near F^
WaJtorj^arjiXaze. some fift y miles north of th e
estuary of the Thames. The sea there washes
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
against a flat coast-line, cutting into and exposing
on the beach remains of a bur ied or prehistoric
floor. contajmn£_many_woj^«]_Jlints. Over this
—
prehistoric floor is a stratum -_8_to_.ji]L.Jteet_in
—
depth of clay. The prehistoric floor, now being

i PKESE.NT
Y FACE
m*- of
 AN ENGLISH TYPE FROM ESSEX
also traces of the foundations of dwellings and of
hearths are found, from which we infer that this
floor must be assigned to the end_of_lhe^eqlrthic,
or commencement of the Br onze Ag e. In round
numbers, about .4000 years ago. We infer, then,

that the east_ coast of Essex ha s been singly

sinking, the prehistoric surface _being partly sub-
m erged by_the_sea, and parjly_bu ried beneath, a
deep layer of rain-washed jclay, which has been
deposited over it, thus preserving for us the traces
of a bygone civilization. Beneat]i tlijs pre-
historic floor Mr. Warren ha s found traces o f an
o lder civilization.
On a September afternoon of 1910 Mr. Hazzel-
dine Warren and his companion, Mr. Miller C hristy,
were searching the beach for washed-out flints,
when they found that the tide had exposed 2 feet —
below the prehistoric floor an d 12 feet below th e
surface of the ori ginal coast-li ne- the Jeg__of__a
human~skeleton. Setting to work, they quickly
exposed a romplete^unian skeleton, lying on its
left side, with the Jace^ ta_lhe_east and tliejiead
to thejiorth. It was in the " contracted posture,"

the linrbs having be en b ound closely to the body

by i^rass ropes, remnants of which were found.
Inside the ribs was found a heap —
nearly a pint—
oTTrjiir^Meds of the blackberry and_dog-rose.
That discovery throws fight on the,jiature_of_the
diet and the seas on of the y ear when_death over-
took this individual. Clearly, too, it was a burial,
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
not the chance interment which overtakes those
who find a last bed in the sea or the river. Nor
could it have been a burial made in recent times,
for until the other day the grave lay twelve feet
below the surface. The grave was_at least as old .

and_^rharjs__old£r, tha n the prehistoric floo r.

The skeleton was permeated by the fine clay and
sand which it lay, and so wonderfully pre-
in
served that a very complete picture can be formed
of the person in life. We have here a specimen of a
L ate Neolithi c Jijiton
Itseems almost ridiculous to have to admit that
there was at first some difficulty in determining the
sex of the individual thus discovered. In life

even an infant can tell a man from a woman,

but when there is only the skeleton, the most ex-
pert anatomist sometimes feels a difficult}'. As
a rule the pelvis, because it is so closely connected
with the functions of child-bearing, provides
the most certain grounds. In the present case,
the evidence of the pelvis was equivocal its ;

characters were more those of a man than of a

woman, yet when its breadth was compared with
that of the chest, a ma rked f e male cha racter was
recognized :was decidedly wider than the chest,
it

whereas in man
the cTiesTTs usually wider than the
lower, or pelvic, part of the body. The muscular
attachments to the base of the skull showed the
delicate tapering neck of the woman ; the skull
itself was in all its features feminine. The bones
AN ENGLISH TYPE FROM ESSEX

Fig. 2. Profile of the Skull of the Essex Woman, with

soft parts indicated. (One-third natural size.)
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
were delicately moulded, the face was of the
narrow oval type so much admired in modern
times the nose was narrow and finely moulded.
;

The hands__and fe et_vvere small, the bones of the

limbs slender and rather short, as compared
to the length of the body. The skeleton is clearly
that of a woman, with the lower part of the body
—
rather contracted and straight not an uncommon
type.
Although 5 ft. 4 in. in height, rather abov e the
modern average, her slenderness must have made
her appear tall. At the time of death she was
about tw^n_ty^jvej^a2^_of_age, for there was evi-
dence that the growth lines of her long bones had
recently closed, and all the sutures of the skull
were open and the bones thin. TIeTTiead waswell
moulded and poised and comparatively small. The
cavity for the brain measured 1260 cubic centi-
metres, which, although quite as large as many
modern women of her build, is_ye t 40 cc below the
.

modern female average.

With her relatively small, well-poised head
and regular features, this woman, were she to
appear in a modern assembly, would still pass
as a good representative of her sex and race. Four
thousand years seem to have worked compara-
tively little change in the best type of British
woman. In head-form she might represent the
students now attending the Women's School of
.Medicine, London. Mr. F. G. Parsons measured
 AN ENGLISH TYPE FROM ESSEX
fifty of these and found the average length of
head to be 175 mm one mm. less tha n in the
.

ancient Essex woman the greatest width of

;

head was the same in both, viz. 137 mm. the ;

height of the head above the ear-holes was almost

the same, viz. 117 mm. in the modern women
students of medicine and 116 mm. in the Neolithic
woman. Thus, not only the absolute dimensions,
but the relative proportions are almost the same,
the width of the head being about 78^ per cen t
of the length in both. They occupy a position
mtei'mecji ate to the narrow heads
long and
(dolichocephalic), which we meet with in
>hall
very ancient times in Britain, and the extremely
short and wide (brachycephalic) heads found in
Central Europe now.
If time lias altered but little the general type of
English woman since Neolithic times, it has
affected some of her features. Irrthe Es sex woma n,
not on e_j)f_J±e_ tiiirJy1two_teeth the zoologist —
—
names'them p erma nent teeth was los t by disease
or accident. The teeth were regularly placed
and the j>alate was wel l form ed, whereas to-day
in more than fifty per cent of women, the palate
is apt to be contracted in width and the teeth

irregularly placed. We blame our food and our

modern conditions of life for these defects, but
while we blame them, we do not quite understand
how they produce these effects on the palate,
and nose, and teeth. We can see very plainly
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
that the act of mastication has altered. In the
great majority of modern British people, the lower
incisor teeth pass up behind the crowns of the
upper, when the jaw is closed in chewing in the;

Essex woman, as in the majority of Neolithic

people and as in modern native races, the_ incisor
teeth meet edge to edge. Our modern teeth are
used merely for crushing food, very little side to
side grinding movement taking place ;
indeed,
as the lower incisors pass behind the upper they
become locked, and little side to side movement is
possible. The edge to edge bite in Neolithic
man allowed the most free side to side grinding
movement. This movement, combined with the
roughness or grittiness of the food led to the crowns
of the teeth being worn down in a maimer not
seen in modern British teeth. In Neolithic man
the hard surface enamel was worn off the crowns,
thus exposing the dentine which forms the main
body of the tooth. The was rarely
sensitive pulp
exposed in the teeth man, because the
of Neolithic
dentine reacted to the grinding movement and
filled the pulp cavity. Although only about
twenty-five years of age, the teeth of the Essex
woman show the dentine already fredy_exposed
on their grinding "surfaces. The well-developed
jawsTand various markings on the skull, point to

large-sized muscles of mastication. The seeds of

wild fruits indicate the nature of the diet we ;

know, too, that the Neolithic people had their

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 AN ENGLISH TYPE FROM ESSEX
con^atches, their q uerns for grind ing, their flocks
and their looms. In every sense of the term they
were a civilized people. Their fare, if rough, was
evidently suited to a healthy development of the
teeth, mouth, throat, and nose. The retrograde
changes in the teeth, palate, and nose are the most
remarkable, and, from a medical point of view,
the most important evolutionary changes seen
in the body of man in recent times.
One other feature of the Essex woman deserves
a brief mention. The bone s of h er right arm
show a high degreejoj^pejciajization she was not
;

only right-handed, but the contour of the shoulder

joint, the muscular impressions of the humerus,
and the shape of the forearm bones show
clearly that she was_engaged _in some occupation
which required the constant repetition of_a_sej pi
right - arm movements. Whether these were
connected with the loom or the _quern it is im-
possible to say whether a lady of high degree, or
;

merely a handmaiden, she had her daily round of

specialized toil.
 CHAPTER II

THE TILBURY MAN

LEAVING the east coast of Essex, I propose

_^t to conduct the reader to the valley of the
Thames, and introduce a man who lived there
many thousands of years before the Essex woman
was born. This individual came to light under
the following circumstances. About half-way
between London and the sea there is a stretch of
flat marshy land on the north bank of the Thames,
where now the Tilbury Docks are situated. In
1883, when they were excavated, a great bed of
stratified sand was reached at a depth of 31 feet
below the marsh surface. In the upper layer of
the sand-stratum were found pieces of decayed and
blackened wood and other objects which showed
that at a remote period the sand bed had formed
the exposed shore or bank of the Thames. About
3 feet below this ancient surface, and 34 feet
below the present marsh level, was found the
fragmentary skeleton of a man. From the fact
that the whole skeleton was represented, and that
it was found below an old surface, we may pre-

sume, as in the last case, that there had been a

 THE TILBURY MAN
burial, but no observation was made on the
position of parts nor were any traces of man's
handiwork found. Whether his implements were
of the rough and very ancient Paleolithic form, or

HIGH WATER C-77f [

 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
It is impossible to frame in years any accurate
estimate of the period that has elapsed since the
Tilbury man was alive, but at least a period of
3 0,000 years seems jiecessary fcTaccount for the
great changes which have occurred in the lower
Thames Valley was buried in a stratum
since he
which now lies 34 feet below the surface of the
land. We have seen that a prehistoric stratum on
the east coast of Essex, which is estimated to be
4000 years old, has been submerged and buried
beneath a layer of clay varying from 8 to 10 feet
in thickness. If the Thames Valley had hern sub-
—
merged at the same rate 2 feet in a thousand
—
years then the Tilbury prehistoric stratum
would have an antiquity of only 15,000 years.
There are reasons for supposing the submergence
in the Thames Valley, with a corresponding
formation of land over the sinking surface, to have
occurred at a much slower rate. No evidence has
been found of any appreciable change in the level
or contour of the banks of the lower Thames
during the last 2000 years. Since the Roman in-
vasion of England there seems to have been little
or no subsidence in this region, yet it is possible
that changes have taken place more rapidly in
remote periods but there is no positive evidence
;

that bears out this supposition. The nature of the

strata which have been found over the prehistoric
surface at Tilbury indicates that the land changes
have taken place very gradually. Immediately
 THE TILBURY MAN
over the buried surface haye_been formed 15 fe_et
of alternate layers of peat and mud, strata which
indicate a low rate of subsidence (Fig. 3.) Over
the rniiH- ppat laye rs are st rata of m ud and clay 1 6
feet in thickne ss. A subsidence of 31 feet, with the
formation of strata of peat, mud, and clay, implies
an enormous change in physical characters of the
lower valley of the Thames. When fuller and
more accurate evidence as to the rate of depression
has been accumulated, it will probably be found
that on an average a _subsirlence of_ a foot for ever y
K)W_j£axsJs--a^Iuglij^
At least it will be apparent, when we come to
examine the characters of the skeleton discovered
at Tilbury beneath 31 feet of strata, that whether
the period be 15,000 or 30,000 of years, the physi-
cal characters of the Thames Valley have changed
infinitelymore than those of its inhabitants.
It a fortunate circumstance that the dis-
is

covers of the Tilbury remains was made at a time

when the questions relating to man's antiquity
were being discussed and the importance of such
finds as historicaldocuments realized. The re-
mains were examined by the veteran zoologist,
Sir Richard Owen, then approaching his eightieth
year, who published a description of them. They
are now preserved in the British Natural History
Museum, South Kensington, where visitors may
examine to-day the broken skull cap, the lower
jaw, the fragmentary bones of the limbs and
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
body and turn from them, I fear, little
aside
realizing their significance. Their importance lies
in this, that these broken human bones, when
carefully examined and compared with modern
specimens, as I have had lately the privilege of
doing, show us that a type of man, similar in
stature and formation.. still ex ists in Brit ain. He
lias remained unchanged during the thousands
of years that have elapsed since the Tilbury
man walked on a surface which lies 30 feet
and more below that on which the Roman
soldiers marched. In Owen's time those scientists
who had come, under Darwin's influence, to
believe in the evolution of man, expected to find
in an individual so ancient as the Tilbury man
some distinct trace of his Simian origin. That was
because there was then in human thought an
erroneous idea_of_t _he antiquity of man's o rujjri ;

his antiquity was then measured by a few thousand

years.
So far as the physical appearance of the Tilbury
man is concerned, he might be one of us he ;

belongs in all his features to the modern type. It

would mean little to the reader were I to com-

pare him to the average Briton of to-day. We
British, every nation under the sun, are a
like
diverse showing great variation in our
people,
stature and proportion of limbs, in our form of
head and face, and in our general mental dis-
position. It seems better, for the purpose of com-
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 THE TILBURY MAN
parison, to take an individual — and the one I

select is a notorious Englishman of the eighteenth

century, who, after alife of crime, was hanged,

and had handed down to posterity in

his skeleton
the celebrated Museum of the Royal College of
Surgeons, England, to the great benefit of many
generations of medical students. This Jonatha n
Wilde has a thigh bone 447 mm. long and a stature
of 1632 mm. (5 ft. 4'2 in.) nearly 4 inches below
the average stature. The length of tjhjg_Tjlbury
man's thigh bone is ^almost flip same as that of
Jonathan Wilde, his leg bo n e, or tibia , is s light ly

longer, so we may infer that his stature was also

appro>ojT2aielvL_the_saiue. The bones of the upper
limb of the Tilbury man are fragmentary, so that
their precise length cannot be determined but ;

in thickness and apparently they agree

in length
closelv with those of his ill-starred countryman.
There is one feature, however, in which they differ,
and that is in the shape of the tibia, or shin-bone.
In the Tilbury man the shaft of the tibia is flattened
fromsi de to sid e, a lmost like a razo r, so that the
width is only 55 p er cent of the fr ont to back
diameter in Jonathan Wilde, as in nearly all modern
;

Europeans, it is prismatic in sectio n, the width

being 62 per cent of its front to back thickness.
In spite of much research, it must be owned that we
do not rightly understand the meaning of flattening
of the tibia its disappearance in modern races
;

is somehow connected with posture and gait. All

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
we do know for certain is that it is not an ap e-like
feature, and that it was a character found in all
races of the Neolithic or later stone period of cul-
ture, not only in England, but in Europe generally.
It occurred also in the prehistoric tribes of the
United States. It may be added that of the two
individuals compared here, Jonathan Wilde's
bones are rather the thicker, and stouter, showing
marks of a fuller muscular development.
In shape and size of head, too, there is a close
agreement between the ancient and modern in-
dividuals compared here, so close that we cannot
doubt they are of the same race. In both, the
h ead .is of mj3dj^rajg_size ; they would have taken
a] 6-j- fitting: in ha ts. The greatest length of the
head in the Tilbury man is 186 mm ., its greatest
wid th 141mm ., its height, estimated from the prob-
able position of the ear passage, about 115 mm. the ;

corresponding measurements in Jonathan Wilde

are 185, 134, 112 mm., the latter having a rather
narrower and lower head. The capacity of the
cranial chamber in Jonathan Wilde is 1425 cubic
centimetres, in the Tilbury man it was probably
—
considerably more ab out i.SQQ_cc., somewhat
above the ave ra ge capacity of the Englishm an o f
to-day. If we take into count, as we ought to in
estimating the size of the brain, the stature and
bulk of body, then we must admit that the size
of brain in the Tilbury man is relatively greater
than in the average man of to-day. If we seek to

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 THE TILBURY MAN
express the shape of head by stating the propor-
tion of breadth to that of length, then the cephali c
or breadth index of the Tilbury man is 7=j
-

8 t_that ~75
of Jonathan Wilde, 72-4 — the head of the latter
being distinctly narrower or more dolichocephalic.
How closely the Tilbury man agrees in size and
shape of head with modern Englishmen may be
seen from recent researches of Mr. F. G. Parsons.
In a collection of crania belonging to men who
lived near RothwelLNortha mptonshire about the
.

time of the Reformation, Mr. Parson s found the

average dimensjons_to_ be_jnudi tiie_sjrne_as_jn
.

the Tilbury ma n. In the Rothwell men the

average length of the skull is the same as in the
Tilbury, viz. 186 mm. the average breadth was
;

almost the same, 142 mm., so that the cephalic

index is also the same. Historians have led us
to believe that in comparatively recent centuries
invasions of Jutes, of Saxons, and of Danes com-
pletely replaced the ancient Britons. Here, then,
is an important fact that very many thousands

of vears before written history begins, and far

bevond our most enduring traditions, there
existed in the valley of the Thames, when the river
flowed in a channel more than 30 feet below its
present level, a man who, in stature and in head
form, is ple ntifully represented amongst English -
men of to-day.
Although all the parts of the face between the
forehead and the mouth of the Tilbury man have
c 17
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
decayed and are thus lost to us, enough of the
mandible was found to assure us that in propor-

T LBURY
I

Fig. 4 Profile of the cranium of the Tilbury Man.

(One third natural size.)

tionsand in type his face was very similar to that

of Jonathan Wilde. Beyond the circumstances
under which the skeleton was found there is no
evidence in its shape and characters of its great
18
 THE TILBURY MAN
antiquity. The chin is pronounced th e marking s ;

on it for the muscles of the tongue and mout h,

muscles closeh>i_con cerned in sp eeuli, s how that
thes e parts were used in the same manner as to-
day. We cannot say what his language may have
been, but we can be certain he_spoke. We know,
too, he was not a voung man the degree to which
;

the bones of the skull have fused together shows

that hejia d long passed the meridian of li fe. His
skeleton s hows no_trac es of di sease, or o f rheumatic
changes. One point rather surprises us ; in
nearly all the specimens of very ancient man that
have been discovered, the teeth, although worn
with age to the sockets, are rarely lost, or show
signs of disease. Here, however, all the back teeth
have bee n lost during life. The three front teeth
—
preserved an incisor, a canine, and a premolar
are all much wor n and
their pulp cavities filled up
by a reaction caused by hard use. As regards size
and shape tliey__do_not differ from modern teeth,
nor do the dimensions of the palate suggest a
development of jaws or of dentition in any way
different from Britons of the Neolithic Period.
To what race of mankind did the Tilbury man
belong ? He is abundantly represented in the
population of modern England. To what race,
when we see this type of man in the flesh to-day
do we assign him ? He and his successors are
ancient British, if you will, but it is better to
follow the example of the sharp-sighted Huxley
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
and speak of a type rather than of a race. In
1862, twenty-one years befc^tjie^illouj^^man
was discovered, H uxley had recognized and
de^cribed_a form of pre historic skul l found in
,

"
Englan d under the name of the
'
river-bed '

t ype The Tilbury cranium is of the river-bed

.

type. The actual specimens described by Huxley

are still in the Museum of the Royal College of
Surgeons, England one_i^_fTOnx_aji_j2l^b^_o|
;

the River_ Trent, near Muskha m

an other J s ;

from a Dolmen in ^Anglese y. Lately another of

this type was discovered by the Rev. E. H.
Mullins in the floor of a cave in Derbyshir e, with
b ones of the reinde er, and other animals long
extinct in England. Indeed, this specimen of the
river-bed type from the Langwith cave deserves
fuller mention, for that able scientist, Mr. Martin
A. C. Hinton, regards the fauna found with this
skull as of the Pleistocene l
Period, and therefore
much older jhan the Tilbury specim en. Another
of the same type, also in the Museum of theRoyal
College of Surgeons, was found beneath a layej^of
when a railway catting
peat and 15 feet of blu eclay
wa s made in Glouc ester. The skull found beneath
the limestone deposit of C ough's cave at Ched dar,
Somerset, is also of the river-bed type. All of
these are usually assignee! to the Neolithic Period,

1
rieistocene, the geological period preceding the present
one. The strata formed during that period are characterized
by containing many extinct species of mammals.
 THE TILBURY MAN
and represent the prevailing type of Englishman
at the commencement of that period and probably
also in the latter part of the Paleolithic Period.
The skulls mentioned may represent British men
and women living thousands of years apart. They
clearly belong to the same race, which, for lack
of a better we may name the " river-bed race."
It is the prevailing type in England to-day, and
from the scanty evidence at our disposal we may
presume that it has been the dominant form many
thousands of years. Remains of the same race
have also been found at Schweizersbild in S witze r-
land^ These remains of a Neolithic people have
been described recently by Dr. Franz Schwertz.
All trace of this race has disappeared in Switzer-
land, whereas in England, in spite of invasion of
Saxon, Jute, Dane, and Norman, it still thrives
abundantly. Further research will probably
show that this race was at one time widely dis-
tributed throughout Europe, where it appears
towards the close of the Glacial Period.

References. — Sir Richard Owen : Antiquity of

Man as deduced from the discovery of a human
skeleton during excavations of the East and West
India Docks at Tilbury, Loudon, 1884.
Samuel Laing and Thomas H. Huxley :

Prehistoric Remains of Caithness. London,

1866.
 CHAPTER III

THE DARTFORD TYPE

WE now return to the lower

to follow the history of
Thames Valley
man still further
into the past. The Thames itself is to be our
clock —one which has never ceased to mark time
and record history on its banks and valley. We
have seen how its banks at Tilbury have sub-
"
sided more than 30 feet since the " river-bed
man was buried there, and how strata of peat, mud,
and clay were laid down as the land gradually sank.
It is clear, however, that the banks of the river had
been sinking many thousands of years before the
Tilbury man came on the scene. Beneath him
are more than 30 feet of strata- of sand and —
gravel laid down by the river when the valley was
still There are thus do feet of recently
sinking.
deposited strata on the banks of the Thames at
Tilbury (Fig. 3, p. 11). If, as a provisional esti-
mate subsidence regarded as having taken place
is

at the rate_of_one_foot per thousand years, then

the 60 feet of deposit at Tilbury represents a period
of 60,000 years. During that period we have
every reason to believe man lived in the valley
 THE DARTFORD TYPE
of the Thames. Flint implements of a peculiar
type are found in the deep " ballast gravels ".of
the Thames bed, but so far no trace of human
remains have been found in the deeper strata.
The strata just mentioned were laid down when
the land was subsiding and the river was tilling

up its bed and valley with new deposits. Before

Fig. 5. Diagrammatic section across the Thames Valley to

show the terraces and buried river bed.

this period of subsidence of the land there must

have been one of elevation —
one in which the river
eroded its valley.
At various levels on the sides of the present
Thames Valley are found terraces of gravel laid
down by the river at various stages of its history.
These are roughly grouped into first!" second,
t hird, and f ourth, terraces. The fourth terrace is

10 to 25 feet above the present level of the rive r

 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
and 70 to 90 feet above the deepest bed. The
terrace was laid down as a deposit in the river bed
when the Thames occupied much the same
channel as now, but when the valley was 10 to 25
teet below its present level as regards the sea. No
remains of the human body have been discovered
in this terrace, but man's handiwork in the shape
of flint implements have been found, and they are
said to mark the transition from the ancient to the
—
new forms from Paleoliths to Neoliths. Remains
of the bison and the reindeer are also found in this
bed. For the purposes of our present enquiry,
however, this terrace is barren. Man was there ;

his form we do not know for certain, but we have

reasons to suspect he was of the " river-bed " type,
for the Langwith skull is probably older than this
terrace.
In the third terrac e, 40 to 60 feet above the
man, other
present_lgygl of the rive r, no remains of
than his stone implements, have been found, with
—
one possible exception the Dartford skull. The
town of Dartford is situated on the banks of the
Parent h about two miles above the point where
,

that stream joins the Thames. It is on the south

side of the Thames Valley and seven miles above
Tilbury. On t he western side of the Paren t
Yallev, ab out a mile above Pa rtford, there is a bed
of j^ rave ab out 18 feet dee p, corresponding in
l ,

ley_el to the_ third (

OOjjootj ter race of the Tjuim.es
Valley. In that bed Mr W. M. Ne wton, of Part-
 THE DARTFORD TYPE
ford, opened a pit in the gravel to earn- out a
systematic search for traces of man. PaJxolithk
i mplemen ts wPTf. foun d and also a human cranium.

Unfortunately the sku ll was not seen in situ ; it

DARTFORD

Fig. 6. Profile of the Dartford cranium compare. with the

i

" river-bed'' type found in Langwith Cave. (One-third natural

size.

was found
-
in a fall wliich_tgok_^lac£_irom_the
worked face, of the pi t. The surface from which
theTfall took place, both before and afterwards,
showed no trace of a disturbance of stratification
such as would be caused by a burial. Mr. Newton
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
estimated that its position m ust have been 6 to 8
f eet below the surface of the grav el. No other
human remains were found.
It must be frankly admitted that the geological
evidence in this case is insufficient to assign to the
skull the same age as to the gravel deposit.
Yet there are certain features in the skull which
indicate for it a great antiquity. It resembles those
of the Paleolithic race fir st found at Cro-Magnon in
the south-west of France so closely that a relation-
ship to that race cannot be doubted. 1 will leave
the discussion of the nature of this remarkable
specimen until I come to deal with the Cro-Magnon
race. This, however, may be said now, that in
strength, in stature, in physique as well as in size
of brain the Cro-Magnon race represents one of
the most stalwart human races ever evolved. The
discovery of such a race at so early a date as the
deposition of the third (6o-foot) terrace in the
Thames Valley is in direct opposition to all we
anticipated. We expected to find evolution work-
ing in an orderly manner, passing step by step
from a Simian to a modern type of man. The Cro-
Magnon was a high type, yet it appears to have
lived in the Thames Valley when the bo-foot
terrace was formed. The fauna of the valley
embraced many animals which are now extinct in
England. In the__6o-foot terrace occur remain s of
three^jspecies of^hinoceros, tw o of ele pliant, with
bones^of the lion and of thej^indeer. So ancient
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 THE DARTFORD TYPE
is the fauna that the inclination is strong to deny
the possibility of so high a type of man as the Dart-
ford existing then. It will be seen, however, that
the succession of human races is disorderly, and
that the race which survives is not necessarily the
one with the big body or with the big brain, nor
even that in which there is a combination of
such characters.
/£- //- C&

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 CHAPTER IV

THE GALLEY HILL MAN. THE OLDEST

HUMAN REMAINS YET FOUND
IN ENGLAND

LEAVING the fourth and third terraces, one

._/ ascends to the still older river bed, the
second terrace, in which the earliest known
inhabitant of England was found. Galley Hill,
the scattered township near which the remains
were found, is situated on the south side of the
river about midway between Dartford and
Gravesend, which is directly opposite to Tilbury.
Galley Hill stands out upon a chalk bluff which
risesfrom the fiat strip of marsh and meadow-land
forming the south bank of the river. Some con-
ception of the great period of time which has
elapsed since the second terrace was laid down,
and the Galley Hill man embedded and preserved
in it, may be formed by trying to realize the con-
dition of the valley when the terrace was deposited.
The valley was then level from the ioo-foot
terrace on the south side to the ioo-foot terrace
on the north side. The distance from one terrace to
the other varies from six to twelve miles. Further,
28
 THE GALLEY HILL MAN
we must imagine the south-eastern part of England
submerged until the third or ioo-foot terrace
has reached the present level of the river banks.
Beginning at this point, conceive the land rising
at an imperceptibly slow rate, the river wearing
down bed and banks and eroding its wide
its

valley elevation occurred.

as That part of the
Thames Valley which lies below the ioo-foot
level has been gradually washed away by the
river since the upper terrace was formed. The
fact that traces of the river bed are still to be
seen on both sides of the valley, so far as ten miles
apart, shows how greatly the river must have
meandered from side to side and how slow the
process of erosion must have been.
As already mentioned, Tilbury and Galley Hill
are not far apart. The Galley Hill remains were
found in the third terrace on the south side of the
river ;the Tilbury remains were found 34 feet
below the surface of the Marsh lands of the north
bank, four miles further down the river. From
the time the Galley Hill man lived until the age of
his Tilbury successor the Thames had done more
than merely wear its valley down 124 feet the —
between the strata in which these
difference in level
remains were found. It had eroded and deposited
an additional 60 feet at least. If we suppose the
Thames to have worked on an average at the rate
of a foot per thousand years —
which is more
than we have reason to think it could do we —
29
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
must allow a period of about 180,000 years
between the dates of those two ancient inhabitants.
In brief, we estimate the period of the Galley Hill
man to be about 200,000 years distant. The re-
mains of animals found in the gravel of the 100-foot
terrace bear out this estimate of antiquity. Bones
of the mammoth, of the woolly rhinoceros and of
the reindeer are found, animals which we associate
with a cold climate. The remains of the straight-
tusked elephant (E. antiquus) of the hippopotamus,
,

and of the lion also occur, and these we regard

as animals of a warmer climate. Most important
of all, flint implements shaped by man, of excellent

workmanship, are also found plentifully. We know

that man was present in the Thames Valley then,
and now we must see what kind of man he was.
In the story of the discovery of the Galley Hill
man, Mr. Robert Elliott, a printer from necessity,
an archaeologist by inclination, plays a leading
part. On a day towards the end of September,
1888, he and his son Richard set out on a customary
visit to the various gravel pits in the neighbourhood
of Galley Hill, in the hope of adding to a growing
archaeological collection. At Galley Hill, as
along both banks of the lower Thames, commerce
had come to the assistance of the antiquarian.
Cement works were eating into the face of the chalk
ridge at Galley Hill. The 100-foot terrace the —
—
old river bed lav over the chalk, and had to be
removed before the cement-makers could excavate
 THE GALLEY HILL MAN
the chalk. On the day of Mr. Elliott's visit the
men working in the gravel pitbetween the high-
road and the face of the chalk ridge which slopes
down to the marshes, and immediately to the west
of the Schoolhouse, had exposed a human skeleton.
The skull was already removed the schoolmaster,
;

Mr. Matthew Hayes, had seen it in the morning

when it lay in place in the face of the sand-bank,
some eight feet from the surface and two feet above
the underlying chalk. Mr. Elliott examined the
place the stratification of the overlying sand and
;

gravel was undisturbed ; the various layers were

just as they had been laid down a burial would
;

have disturbed them. Besides, the depth was too

great for a recent burial. On setting to work Mr.
Elliott was able to recover other bones of the
—
skeleton from the same loamy layer one evidently
laid down in a pool of the old river bottom. The
remains found are sufficient to provide a fairly
complete picture of one of the race which pre-
sumably fashioned the Mint implements found in
the ioo-foot terrace. So soft and fragile were the
bones when found that they had to be set in the
sun to dry, and unfortunately in the drying the
skull warped. The bones were found in 1888,
but it was not till 1896 that a full and excellent
description of them was published by Mr. E. T.
Newton, f.r.s. Later this relic of ancient man
passed into the collection of Mr. Frank Corner.
To that gentleman my thanks are due for placing
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
the skeleton freely at my disposal, and for the
opportunity of making a more minute investigation
than had been made previously. The first im-
pression on examining the remains of this earliest
known inhabitant of England is one of surprise,
almost of disappointment in all his features, with
;

a few exceptions, he is so modern in build that

we might meet him on the streets of London to-day
and pass him by unnoted. He was a man of rather
low stature, about 5 ft. 3 or 4 in. (1600 mm.),
as may be judged from his thigh bones, which are
just over 420 mm. long, the right rather longer
than the left. The thigh bones are somewhat
peculiar in shape as in the Tilbury man and
;

Neolithic races generally, the upper part of the

shaft is flattened from back to front and the neck
of the bone is long. Another peculiar feature is

the wide separation of the two condyles at the

lower end of the femur. No doubt these features
indicate a peculiarity in the posture and gait,
but in spite of much research we have not yet
discovered what these peculiarities are. All we
is that we occasionally see amongst
are certain of
modern people the same type of thigh bone,
and that such men walk in the upright posture
just as easily as those with rounded thigh bones.
Nor were the proportions of his limbs peculiar.
In a modern man of 5 ft. 4 in. we expect the
thigh bone to be about 425 mm. in the Galley
;

Hill man it is a little over 420 the tibia or leg

;
 THE GALLEY HILL MAN
bone in a modern man of this stature is 250 mm. ;

in the Galley Hill man the tibia is broken, but its

original length may be estimated at 325 mm. — an
inch shorter than we usually see in modern men
of this stature. The humerus is also broken, but
its length, judging from the upper two-thirds
which are preserved, was about 310 mm. about —
half an inch longer than is usual nowadays in
men of his stature. Thus, as amongst the Lapps,
the leg bones were short and the arms rather long,
but these may be only features of the individual
and not of the race. We see thus that at an early
stage of the erosion of the Thames Valley man's
posture, gait, and proportions
were already
completely evolved. The modifications since then
concern only bodily details.
Another remarkable feature of this inhabitant
of Ancient Britain deserves mention. The greater
part of the right collar-bone (clavicle) is preserved.
The bone evidently was rather a short one (130 mm.),
but on it an impression which shows that the
is

chief driving muscle of the arm —

the pectoralis
—
major was mightily developed. The impression
for its insertion to the upper end of the humerus is
also pronounced. The great pectoral muscle,
which crosses outwards in front of the armpit,
was evidently trained to its full capacity. Such
acts as thrusting a spear from the shoulder,
or hurling a javelin, would entail a great pectoral
development. The short clavicles indicate that
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
he was rather a narrow-shouldered man, and frag-
ments of three ribs show us that his chest was
rounded and strong, for the ribs are stouter than
those of modern men of his stature.
It is in the head that we must seek for characters
to fix the position of the Galley Hill man in the
racial scale of humanity. With the assistance of
Mr. F. O. Barlow, I was able to obtain a cast of
the cranial cavity which shows very clearly the
The arrangement
superficial features of the brain.
and form of the convolutions and fissures show
the same features as the brain of modern man.
The parts we connect with speech, with sight, with
motion are all there. In shape it is peculiar it is ;

very long and narrow. These are not Simian

characters, nor have we any reason to believe
that a short and wide brain is better than a long
and narrow one. The thousands of flint imple-
ments found embedded in the same stratum
of the ioo-foot terrace show that the race to
which the Galley Hill man belonged could use
their brains and hands to carry out an art which
requires a high degree of skill and design. The
imperfect condition of the skull precludes an
exact estimate of the size of the brain it was;

over 1350 cubic centimetres and under 1400 cc.

In an average modern man of his stature we
should expect a brain of 1450 to 1475 cc. but there
;

are many men in England to-day with smaller

brains than the Galley Hill man. In Jonathan

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 THE GALLEY HILL MAN
Wilde, who was a couple of inches taller, the brain
cavity measured 1425 cc.
The feature of the Galley Hill man is the length
of his skull it is 8 inches (203 mm.).
;
To the
reader this may mean
little, but when it is re-

membered that the " river-bed " men, who appear

when the Thames Valley had reached its present
depth, had a maximum head length of 71 inches
. (184 mm.) it will be seen that it means a great deal,
especially if we regard the specimen found at
Galley Hill as representative of his race. We
find a very ancient race on the Continent with a
similar form of head, and that is one of the chief
reasons we have lor supposing we are dealing
with a representative individual in the Gallev
Hill man. Individuals with a head equally as long
as the Galley Hill man still occur in England. In
a hundred medi eval crania from Northamptonshire
Mr. Parsons found one with a length of 205 mm.
and two of 200 mm., although the mean length
for the hundred is that of the river-bed people
184 mm. The length of the skull in the Galley
Hill man is not due to massing of bone in ridges
over the orbits indeed, the supra-orbital ridges
;

are only slightly more marked than in modern

men. Just over the orbits the thickness of the
skull is 14 mm. —
a little above the modern average.
The skull, however, is thick the frontal bone in
;

place of being 6 to 8 mm. is 12 mm. thick, a

feature which occurs in very ancient skulls
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
In old people, too, the cranial wall is apt to thicken,
but from the wear of the teeth and from the degree
to which the bones of the skull have united at

GALLE.Y HILL. .(N? 1).

Fig. 7. Profile of the skull of the Galley Hill Man.

their sutures the thickness in the Galley Hill man is

apparently not clue to age he was past middle

;

—
age- probably about fifty.
There are certain circumstances which make an
 THE GALLEY HILL MAN
accurate measurement of the width of the Galley
Hill skull difficult. One side is partly broken
away, and drying the skull warped. By the
in
use of special methods and instruments the diffi-
culties can be overcome, and there is no doubt its
width was at first underestimated in place of being;

130 mm. it is 138 to 140 mm. nearly the same —

width as the river-bed crania and 2 or 3 mm. less
than is the modern average. The breadth is about
69 per cent of the length in the river-bed crania,
;

the average is the same as in modern English

crania, 74 to 76 per cent. In the phraseology of
the craniologist, the Galley Hill man was markedly
dolichocephalic. As is common in this type of
skull the was narrow, but of good
forehead
height and not receding. The height of the ver-
tex of the skull above the ear passages is 120 mm.
In height of skull the Galley Hill man was not
peculiar Mr. Parsons gives 120 mm. as the cor-
;

responding measurement of the Northamptonshire

crania. Thus we see that in England there still
persists hereand there a man who shows cranial
features very similar to those found amongst the
inhabitants of theThames Valley so long ago.
As usually the case in such finds, the chief
is

part of the face had perished. Fortunately the

left half of the lower jaw, carrying five teeth, two

premolars, and three molars, was found. By

placing the jaw in its proper relationship to the
skull it is possible to reconstruct, with a consider-

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
able degree of accuracy, the main outlines of the
face. The was short and relatively wide.
face
In an average modern Englishman the face,

GALLEY H1UL .(N°l)

Fig. 8. Galley Hill skull — full face. (One-third natural size.)

measured from the root of the nose to the lower

border of the chin, is about 120 mm. in the ;

Galley Hill man it was about 100 mm., the

deficiency being due to the shortness of the upper
 THE GALLEY HILL MAN
face. The nose was short, but from the con-
formation of its root we infer that it was prominent
and perhaps rather wide. The extreme width of
the face was 130 mm., 5 mm. in excess of the
average modern man. The chin, if not so pro-
nounced as in modern mandibles, was certainly
present. One sees on the mandible the same
muscular impression as in modern man — im-
pression caused by the muscles which move the
tongue and lips. We may infer, therefore, that
the tongue was used in speech in much the same
way as we use it now. There is nothing anthropoid
in the lower jaw, and yet it shows some primitive
features. The coronoid process to which the
—
temporal muscle the chief muscle of mastication
— is attached is separated from the articular
process of the jaw by a deep notch in all modern
specimens. Here there is no notch it is filled
;

up with bone to give strength. The need for a

strong coronoid process is apparent when the
extensive impressions for the temporal muscles
are noted on the sides of the skull. The ridges
which bound the origins of these muscles reach
to within 40 mm. of the median line on the vertex
of the skull, whereas in modern crania they fall
short of it by 60 mm. In anthropoids these ridges
may reach the vertex. We see then that the
muscles of mastication were uncommonly well
developed in ancient man, but the teeth them-
selves, and the palate, the size of which can be

39
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
estimated from the lower jaw, are not markedly
different from the same parts in modern man. In
no sense can the lower molar teeth, and they
indicate the condition of the upper, be said to be
primitive either in size or shape. In apes with a
dentition at its highest point of development,
such as the baboon and gorilla, the last lower molar
is larger than the first; when retrogression sets in,
the last is the first to diminish. In a large-toothed
race, like the extinct Tasmanians, the last lower
molar is equal in size to the first the middle tooth
;

being slightly smaller. In this race the front to

back measurement of the crown of the first lower
molar may amount to 13 mm. (i in.), in the
Galley Hill man the crown of the first molar is only
11 mm., a common dimension in modern man,
while the last molar is only I0'2, about the same size
as the middle or second molar. Thus in the
Galley Hill man retrogression of teeth has already
commenced ; the last lower molar is reduced to
the size of the second. In the majority of modern
Englishmen it is smaller than the second, dental
retrogression being still more marked. The middle
and last molars have only four cusps in the Galley
Hill man, whereas many of the more primitive
—
human races still show five apparently the
original number. The premolar teeth agree
absolutely in size and shape with their modern
representatives, the first being 7 mm. and the
second 7*5 mm. in the front to back diameters of
40
 THE GALLEY HILL MAN
their crowns. The teeth show no trace of disease,
and are in the same manner as in the Neo-
worn
lithic Essex woman, but not to such a degree,
although he appears to be older than she was.
The size of the palate was apparently very little
different from the modern average, the modern
being longer and narrower. For instance, the
length of the lower bite, measured from a point
between the middle incisors to the mid-point
of a line drawn transversely behind the crowns
of the last molars, is 46 mm. in modern English-
men, and 44 mm. in the Galley Hill man. The
breadth between the outer borders of the last
molars is 77 mm. in the Galley Hill man, and
only 68 mm. in modern Englishmen. There thus
appears to have been little alteration in the
development of the palate and teeth during the
exceedingly long interval which elapsed between
the dates of the Galley Hill and the later Neolithic
man. In that long period the nature of the diet
remained the same. The reduction of the teeth
and palate evidently commenced when the more
prosperous conditions of modern civilization were
introduced.
Quite recently a second example of a human
skull from the upper terrace (90 to 100 feet) at
Galley Hill was sent to me for examination. I

have mentioned the fact that Mr. Matthew Hayes,

the schoolmaster of Galley Hill, was the first
to see the Galley Hill skull when exposed by the
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
workmen. He was naturally disappointed when
he found Mr. Elliott had come in the meantime
and obtained possession of an object he wished
to add to his own collection, and hence took no
further interest in the find, nor did he then mention
the skull I am now to describe as the second Galley
Hill skull.
In 1884, four years prior to the discovery of the
famous specimen, the bank of gravel on the chalk
cliff extended to the north of the school, some

fifty yards from where the celebrated discovery

was afterwards made. Mr. W. H. Steadman, now
headmaster of the neighbouring Council School at
Northfleet, was then assistant master at Galley
Hill. The schoolboys, playing on the north face
of the gravel, had discovered the fragments of a
human skull, with several other bones, and brought
them to Mr. Steadman, who placed them in his
School Collection, where they are now. To the
best of his recollection they were about 5 feet
below the surface level of the terrace. It was
only lately, on seeing reports concerning the
remains just described, that he realized the find
made so long ago as 1884 might still be important.
The skull is sufficiently perfect to recognize that
it is of the same form as the type specimen.
Its length is just under 200 mm. ; its width is

140 mm., the same as in the original specimen.

Tlif width is thus 70 per cent of the length, the
index being 70 in place of 69 in the original
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 THE GALLEY HILL MAN
specimen. Its height is rather less — 116 mm. ;

the forehead is ioo mm. in width —about the same

as in the original ; its capacity is rather greater,
and the brow ridges and impressions for the
muscles of mastication less pronounced. The
bones too are thinner, the frontal being 6 to 8 mm.
in place of n to 12. They do not show the same
degree of erosion and weathering. The cranium
is whiter and more permeated with calcareous
salts. The limb bones, however, are of a totally
different type, and indicate a tall man with the
shafts of the thigh bones not flattened as in the
original, but cylindrical as in modern man.
The evidence on the whole is decidedly against
the probability of the second Galley Hill remains
being of the age of the 100-foot terrace. Before
passing a final opinion as to their antiquity it will
be well to wait and see what future discoveries
may tell us.

The reader may naturally ask : To what race

does the Galley Hill man belong ? The answer is
that he is a type of a new race which at the same
time is very old. He represents a race to which we
may rightly give the name of " Galley Hill."
The race is still represented in the modern popula-
tion of Britain by a scattered remnant. The race
is both ancient and modern ancient in the sense
;

that was evolved long before the valley system

it

of England had taken on its present configuration,

modern in the sense that in all his parts, in spite
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
of his long and narrow head, his short and wide,
rather negroid face, he stands as the most ancient
representative of the Europeans in their modern
form.
We also know something of the climate of
England during the formation of the upper
terrace, in which the remains of the Galley Hill
race are embedded. In it are found the bones of
animals which indicate a warm climate, such as
the lion and the straight-tusked elephant and the
hippopotamus in it too are found remains of
;

the woolly rhinoceros and the mammoth, usually

regarded as denizens of cold regions. We presume
that the Arctic fauna succeeded the temperate,
for in the lower and later terraces of the Thames
Valley the mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros,
joined subsequently by the reindeer, still occur,
when the lion and hippopotamus were extinct in
England. The Galley Hill race evidently lived
during a period in which the climate of the South
of England was changing from a temperate
to a cold one and when the land was undergoing
elevation with consequent deepening of the
Thames Valley. Previous to the temperate period
there must have been one of extreme cold, for the
third or ioo-foot terrace lies on boulder clay and
other formations which can only be deposited
in a country deeply covered with ice. The Galley
Hill race flourished then in a temperate period
which was preceded by an extremely cold one
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 THE GALLEY HILL MAN
and followed by one in which the cold was less
severe. Apparently he belonged to the last
of the temperate intervals which lie within the
Glacial Age.

Referenxes. — Mr. E. T. Newton, f.r.s. :

" On a
Human Skull and Limb Bones found in the
Paleolithic Terrace Gravel at Galley Hill,

Kent." Quart. Jour. Geo. Soc, London,

1895, Vol. 51, p. 505.
Mr. H. B. Woodward, f.r.s. " The:

Geology of the London District." Memoirs

of the Geological Surrey. London, 1909.

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 CHAPTER V
THE MEN OF BRUNN AND COMBE-
CAPELLE

is not likely that the Galley Hill race arose in

IT England. It was probably originally a Conti-
nental race, for our early history is a long story of
continual immigrations and invasions. Western
waves of the Continental sea of humanity seem to
have surged into Britain since Europe was first
inhabited, and that is many hundred thousand
years ago. We modern British have arisen by a
process of mixture and happy hybridization. Our
ancestors of the river-bed type dominated Eng-
land for many thousand years, but, as we shall 'see,
they too appear to have arisen on the Continent,
and were at first aliens in Britain. The Galley
Hill type and perhaps also the Cro-Magnon, pre-
ceded them in England. Both of these types are
Continental in origin. When we in turn become
an invading race we turn our faces westwards as
did our Paleolithic ancestors..
We propose now to cross to the Continent and
search for traces of the Galley Hill race. This type
has been found at Briinn, the chief town of the
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 THE BRUNN MAN
Austrian Province of Moravia, some sixty miles
north .of Vienna. The wide valley in which Briinn
is situated is covered by a thick stratum of loess

a chalky clay. A tributary of the Danube the —

—
Ponafa flows slowly down the valley and has had
much to do with the deposition of the deep strata
on which Briinn is built.
The period which the stratum of loess was
at
laid down can be dated with some accuracy. Re-
mains of the mammoth and of the woolly rhino-
ceros occur in it abundantly, from which it may
be safelv inferred that its formation belongs to
the latter part of the cold or Glacial Period. In
189 1, when a canal was being cut through the city,
a number of mammoth and
rhinoceros bones, with
a human were found in the undisturbed loess,
skull,

4! metres (n| feet) from the surface. The forma :

tion is probably not so old as the 100-foot terrace
in which the Galley Hill remains were found it ;

corresponds rather to a date between the 50- and

20-feet terraces —
a period perhaps 50,000 years
later than the Galley Hill man, if the rough
method of estimation used here can be trusted to
guide us. The civilization is very different from that
of the Galley Hill man ; all we know of him are
his fine flint but we know the art of
implements ;

the man of Briinn. With the skull was found the

image of a bearded man carved from the ivory of
a mammoth's tusk. \\ 'e know that he ornamented
his body six hundred perforated small shells (Den-
;

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
talia) ,
part of his elaborate necklace, were found near
the skull. The implements of bone found with him
are highly finished scrapers. We have no evidence

BRUNN O
GALLEY- HILL —

Fig. 9. The profile of the Briinn and Galley Hill skulls.

(One-third natural size.)

to show that the Galley Hill man had reached such

an advanced point on the road to a higher civiliza-
tion. We owe much to Professor Makowsky of
Briinn for the records of this discovery, but the
4s
 THE BRUNN MAN
merit of recognizing the affinities of the Man of
Briinn to the Galley Hill race at a later jdate
is due to Professor Klaatsch of Breslau.
Not only is there a remarkable resemblance in
size and shape between these two ancient skulls
found so far apart, but the actual parts which have
escaped natural decay are almost identical. In
both, the facial parts have perished, but the
roof of the skull and half of the lower jaw,
with some teeth, have been preserved in each
case. The Briinn skull, like the Galley Hill one,
is remarkably long and narrow. In the latter
it was 203 mm., in the former 206 mm. (i in.
longer). In both one side is deficient, but in the
Briinn specimen the degree of post mortem dis-
tortion is less. The Briinn skull is wider than
usually thought Makowsky estimated its width
;

at 139 mm. same as the Galley Hill), but a

(the
minute examination of the cast has convinced
the writer that it was at least 144 mm., the
breadth or cephalic index being thus 69 per cent
—a figure corresponding to that of the Galley
Hill. The capacity was probably greater than that
of the Galley Hill, being about 1400 cubic centi-
metres (Makowsky gives 1350), and thus about
80 cc. below the average of modern Europeans.
He was a more brawny individual than his English
counterpart, for the muscular processes, especially
those for the muscles of his neck, are more pro-
nounced. He was a bull-necked fellow. He was
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
also —
an older man at least his teeth, especially the
firstand second molar teeth, are much more worn.
Some of the crowns are ground almost to the roots.
The wear of teeth depends as much on the nature
of food as on age, and hence is not a reliable guide.
Nor does the degree to which the skull bones have
united give a sure clue to age, for evidently in
the Galley Hill race these became ossified together
at an early period of manhood. If Makowsky's
observation is accurate the last lower molar was
remarkable. It was much larger than either the
ftrsi di" second molars, whereas in modern Euro-

pean races il is smaller. From the drawings given

by the discoverer we may infer that the size of
the palate was similar to that of the Galley
Hill man, but apparently the prominence of the
chin was more pronounced. The branch of the
mandible which ascends to articulate with the skull
and receive the muscles of mastication was longer,
and in shape more like the same part in modern
man. The face of the man of Briinn was therefore
rather longer and more modern than that of the
Galley Hill man. In neither was there such a
prognathism as we see in modern negro races, for
the good reason that they had less massive teeth.
The parallelism between the discoveries at
Galley Hill and Briinn may be continued further.
It will be remembered that at Galley Hill another
specimen was produced which had been found
some years before the more important discovery.
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 THE COMBE-CAPELLE MAN
A second Briinn _skull was found in i8$5, in
the same stratum, but at some distance from the
one now known as the first. Like the second
Galley Hill skull its history is imperfect, but it^

authenticity is more probable. Its length is esti-

mated at 192 to 195 mm. its breadth at 139, its
;

index being thus JZ- It represents in the writer's

opinion the female type of the race. Its dimen-
sions and its muscular prominences are such as we
expect to find in the woman of the Briinn type.
In 190c) a discovery was made in the south-west
of France which shows the wide distribution of
the Galley Hill type in ancient times. In the caves
and rock shelters of the limestone terraces which
flank the valley of the Dordogne, French anthro-
pologists have deciphered the history of Paleolithic
man. In their hands cave-research has become a
science. In the present instance, however, the
discovery of an ancient man of the Galley Hill
type in this region was made by a skilled Swiss
archaeologist, Herr O. Hauser. In the beginning /c fl c
of 1909 he set his men to work in a narrow terrace
under a limestone cliff, just such a spot as Paleo-
lithic man would choose for a shelter. The site is
known as Combe-Capelle, and is situated on the
south side of the Dordogne, a little way below the
place where this river is joined by the Vezere. By
August of that year his foresight was rewarded by
the discovery of the complete skeleton of a man ai a
depth of a little over 7 feet (2 '55 metres). To reach
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
thisdepth the remains of three separate epochs
of civilization were passed through. When the
upper layer of black soil was cleared away a thick
stratum was exposed which had been formed when
generations of men had lived in the shelter of the

OLUTREAN
RILE LAYER
PPER AUR1GNACEAN
- 5 I EKiLE LAYER
X— middle; aurignace
- STERILE LAYER
v .
AURiGNACEAN
OUSTEREAN

Fig. 10. Section of the strata in which the ancient human

remains were found at Combe-Capelle.

overhanging and left remains of their hearths,

cliff

of their stone and bone implements and the debris

of their feasts. The drip from the limestone rock
saturated, solidified, and preserved these evidences
of a remote civilization "C here is no preservative
;

for bones equal to a continual drip laden with

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 THE COMBE-CAPELLE MAN
limestone in solution. It permeates the pores of
the bones and mineralizes them. The civilization
of the upper layer of the Combe-Capelle shelter is
of the type assigned to the Sal utreen Period one —
which falls in the later third of the Paleolithic
Period. Beneath the Salutreen lay a sterile layer,
deposited when the shelter was unfrequented by
man. Below this layer came another stratum
containing traces of man which Herr Hauser
assigns to the later or younger Aurignac ien
Period ;then another sterile layer followed by one
belonging to the middle Aurignacie n, and finally
the _steriie—layer which ove rlay the stratum in
w hich the human skeleton was foun d. The last
sterile layer apparently formed the floor of the
shelter when the man now to be described was
—
buried in it buried in the material which had
accumulated when he and his forefathers dwelt
there. He did not fall by chance to be buried by
the slow accumulation of debris detached from
the cliff, for he lay o n his right sid e, in the crouch-
ing posture wit h his feet to the sout h, head to
,

the nort h, and numerous flint implemen ts placed

round him and in a _grave whichcle arly had bee n
prepared* for him Over him lay the unbroken
.

strata formed by the civilizations of succeeding

periods. Some remains of the pig and of the urus
— —
a primitive form of ox were found in the same
stratum, but nothing of the mammoth or woolly
rhinoceros or of animals which help us to fix a

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
geological date for him. Nor have we, as in the
Thames Valley, the work of the river to give us
a rough indication of time. We have only the
flint implements he used, and they assign him to
the beginning of the period named the Aurig-
nacien. In England we suppose this period to
correspond to the formation of the lowest (20-fo ot)
terrace of the Thames Valley, and therefore long
after the period of the Galley Hill man and possibly
also subsequent to the date of the man of Brunn.
ProfessorKlaatsch, who examined and de-
scribed the remains, unhesitatingly assigned the
Combe-Capelle man to the Galley Hill race. The
maximum length of the skull is 198 mm., 5 or
6mm. less than the Galley Hill the maximum
;

width is 130 mm., about 10 mm. less, but we see

here a head of the same narrow long type. Indeed,
the relative width is less, being only about 66
per cent of the length. We must not supposelhat
any two individuals showing long and narrow
heads are of the same race we find narrow-
;

headed forms amongst both black and white races

which we cannot suppose to be nearly related.
The height of the vault above the ear-holes is
considerably more in the Combe-Capelle than in
—
the Galley Hill skull at least 5 mm., and the
highest point of the crown of the head is further
—
back nearer the occiput. We know the face of
the Galley Hill man only from the mandible, but
there is sufficient to show that the face form

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 THE COMBE-CAPELLE MAN
differed from that seen in the Combe-Capelle man.
The teeth of the latter are more massive, the

Fig. 1 1. Profile of the skull of the Combe-Capelle Man c 'in-

pared with the profile of the Galley Hill man (One-third
natural size.)

palate is longer and narrower, characters which,

with the increased height of the skull, betoken a

tendency towards features usually associated with
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
a negroid race. On the other hand, the characters
of the forehead are the same in both ; the width <>|

the face was also about the same (130 mm.) ;

but while the face in the Combe-Capelle man

was of medium length (116 mm.), that of the
Galley Hill man was decidedly short (104 mm.),
and shortness of face is frequently a character oi_
negroes. Both men were of short stature, about
iboonnn. (5 ft. 3 in.), but while the thigh bone
of the Combe-Capelle man is only 3 mm. longer
than that of the Galley Hill, yet his leg bone
(tibia) is at least 40 mm. more. Now a relatively
lung leg bone is a feature which is usually seen in
negroid^, and in this feature the Combe-Capelle
man isdecidedly of that rjice. Thus while the
writer inclined to agree in provisionally assigning
is

the Combe-Capelle man to the Galley Hill race

he believes that further discoveries will show that
the Combe-Capelle man belongs to a branch
marked with certain negroid features.
Before quitting the Galley Hill type there are
two very ancient skulls which deserve mention
because they serve to bridge the gap between the
Tilbury or river-bed and the Galley Hill types.
So long ago as 1833^ Professor Schmerling, a Bel-
gian archaeologist, on excavating the floor of a
— —
limestone cave the Engis Cave in the valley of
the Meuse, found at a dep~th of 5 feet (i| metres),
the roof-part of a human skull. With it were
found remains of the mammoth and woolly
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 THE COMBE-CAPELLE MAN
rhinoceros, so we may infer that we
are dealing with
a skull nearly not quite as old as that at Brunn
if

or Combe-Capelle. The skull is shorter, wider, and

higher than the Galley Hill type indeed, in all
;

those points it approaches the Tilbury forjn. In

the opinion of its discoverer, a very cautious and
judicious scientist, this skull showed certain
characters which approximate it "to the cranium
of an Ethiopian rather than to that of a European."
It was of this specimen that Huxley said, " It is,
in fact, a fair average human skull, which might
have belonged to a philosopher or might have con-
tained the thoughtless brains of a savage." Thus
at a very early date there was evolved a type of
skull intermediate to the Galley Hill and river-
bed types, and one in which Professor Schmerling
thought he traced some features of the Negro.
Another skull of the same intermediate type
—
was discovered in Bohemia the most western
—
Province of Austria near the town of Brtix. It
was discovered in 1871, but a knowledge of its
exact nature we owe entirely to the recent investi-
gation of Professor Schwalbe of Strassburg. It
belongs to a later date than the Engis specimen,
to a period preceding that of the Tilbury skull, with
which it has much in common.

The present evidence points to a wide distribu-

tion of a race of the Galley Hill type throughout
Europe in the latter part of the Glacial Period
and the earlier part of the Post-glacial. Its

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
originwe do not know. The type is still to be
met with amongst modern British people. It is
probable that the river-bed type was evolved from
the Galley Hill type. Certain features of this type
point to a relationship with negroid races.

References. — Prof. Alex. Makowsky :

" Der
diluviale Mensch in Loess von Briinn."
Mitih. Anthrop. Gesellschaft in Wien, 1892,
Bd. XXII, p. 73 .

Prof. H. Klaatsch and O. Hauser " Homo :

Aurignacensis Hauseri." Prccliistor. Zeit-

schrift, 1910, Bd. I, p. 273.

Prof. G. Schwalbe : "Das Schaedel-frag-

ment von Briix und verwandte. Schaedel-
formen." Zeitscli. fur Morphologic und
AntJiropologic, 1906, p. 81.
Schmerling.
Prof. See Huxley's Man's
Place in Nature. London, 1863.
 CHAPTER VI

THE GRIMALDI OR NEGROID TYPE

IN EUROPE

the cliffs which flank the beach near Men-

INtone there are a number of cay,es which for
a long period of time afforded a habitation for
ancient man. At the close of the last and at the
beginning of the present century, largely owing
to the interest taken in the history of primitive
man by the Prince of Monaco, systematic excava-
tions were carried out in deep strata of their floors.
In one of these, the " Grotte des Enfants," usually
named the Grimaldi Cave, the various strata of
the floor made up a thickness of 81 metres (28
feet). In the lowest layer of all were found two
—
skeletons one of a woman past middle life, with
a stature estimated at 1570 mm. (5 ft. 2 in.), and
the other of a boy about sixteen to seventeen
years of age, and about 1550 mm. (5 ft. 1 in.) in
height. With them were found traces of a civiliza-
tion and fauna which has led anthropologists
of a
to assign them
to the end of the Mousterien or
beginning of the Aurignacien Period about the—
same or perhaps before the period assigned to the
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
Combe-Capelle man. They have the narrow and
long heads of the Galley Hill race. In the woman
the maximum length of the head is 191 mm. in ;

the boy, probably her son, it is 192 the width

;

of the skull in the mother is 131 and in the son

133. The proportion of breadth to length is about
<>N per cent (he same as in the ralley Hill race.
<

Yet Dr. Verneau, who has published the results of

a minute examination of these two ancient in-
dividuals, from various features seen in the skele-
tons, had no hesitation in assigning them to a
negroid race.
an easy matter to distinguish the skeleton
It is
of the true negro from that of the pure white, but
—
there are many intermediate races not hybrids
— which show a puzzling mixture of characters.
The ancient Grimaldi woman and boy are of the
mixed or negroid type. We associate large white
teeth, full prominent jaws, and receding chin with
the races showing pigmented skins. In the old
woman, a great number of the teeth have been lost
during life and the dental characters are uncertain.
The shallow, projecting incisor part of the upper
jaw and the characters of the chin are certainly
features of a negroid race. So are the wide opening
of the nose, the prominent cheek bones, the flat
and short face. Yet the bridge of the nose is not
flat as in negroes, but rather prominent as jn

Europeans, and the capacity of the skull (1375 cc.)

is of ample dimensions for a woman of her size.

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 THE GRIMALDI TYPE IN EUROPE
As and of the negro
to the boy, his teeth are large
type he bears a striking resemblance to the
;

woman, and his cranial capacity (158 cc. ) indi-

cates a brain distinctly above the modern in size.
The leg bones of mother and son are relatively
long as in negroes. In that race the two eminences
or bosses of the forehead usually meet' and join
together in a high median prominence, whereas
in white races they remain separated, and this is
the case in""the Grimaldi skulls. Indeed, in the
features of the forehead the Grimaldi remains agree
with the Galley Hill type. It is a remarkable fact
that the natives of the uplands of the Sandwich
— —
Islands a true negroid race reproduce to-day
the cranial features of the ancient inhabitants of
the Grimaldi caves.
To appreciate~"the true significance of a negroid
race in the south of Europe towards the close of
the Glacial Period, we must look at the distribu-
tion^ modern races. A line from Gibraltar in the
West to the Phillipine Islands in the Far East
passes through a zone where the fairer skins of the
North pass into the darker skins of the South.
To some extent it may be a zone in which inter-
mixtures of fairer and darker races occur, but in
the main it is better to regard it as a zone in which
human races have inherited from the ancestral
stock of modern humanity some of the characters
which now distinguish the European, and some
that distinguish the Negro but both Negro and
;

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
European are highly specialized examples of the
modern type of man. The discovery of the
Grimaldi race does not indicate that we have
reached the common stock from which black and
white races have evolved that point must lie
;

much farther in the past. It merely indicates

that towards the end of the Glacial Period the
negroid race which we see in the north of
Africa to-day was already evolved, and that it
extended into Europe. The land connections
between Europe and Africa we know to have
been much closer in the time of the Grimaldi
people than they are to-day. There are other
evidences of a negroid race in Europe. The
negroid traits of the Combe-Capelle man have
been mentioned but there is also the remark-
;

able fact that statuettes and engravings which

are assigned to this period represent certain
bodily characters of the negro. The Grimaldi
people are the earliest negroid type so far
discovered, yet they are so modern and highly
evolved in character that we cannot suppose them
to represent a common ancestor of European and
African races. If, however, we suppose that all
races of modern man have been evolved from a
common stock, we naturally expect, especially
in the earlier stages of the evolution of modern
races, to find intermediate typesbetween the ex-
treme forms now found in North Europe and
racial
Central Africa. The Grimaldi people seem to
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 THE GRIMALDI TYPE IN EUROPE
represent an intermediate type in the evolution of
the typical white and black races.

Reference. — Dr. Rene Verneau : Lcs Groitcs de

Grimaldi, Vol. II. Monaco, 1906.
 CHAPTER VII

AN ANCIENT RACE OF TALL MEN:

THE CRO-MAGNON

THERE is a widely spread notion that our

remote ancestors were a race of giants.
Hitherto, as we have passed from type to type
into a remote past that takes us well within the
Glacial Period, the samples of ancient humanity
preserved to us have been one and all people of a
—
low stature only 5 feet or a little over. Now we
proceed to consider the oldest race of great stature
that has yet been discovered, one which flourished
in the south of France when the last of the cold
periods was lifting from Europe. The first ex-
amples of this race were discovered in_i868, when
a railway was being constructed in the valley <„>l

the Vezere, a tributary of the Dordqgne. A cutting

made in the debris at the foot of the limestone
cliffswhich flank the valley of the Vezere at Cro-
Magnon, brought to light the skeletons of a man,
of a woman, and part of the skull of a third in-
dividual. Hence this ancient type or race is
usually' named Cro-Magnon. We now know ten
individuals of that race of which eight are men
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 AN ANCIENT RACE OF TALL MEN
and two are women. The stature of five of the
men can be estimated with some degree of exact-
ness — it varies from 1820 to 1870 mm. (5 ft. n| in.
to 6 tt. i\ iu.i. The woman, as is usually the case
in tall races, was evidently of a smaller stature ;

mm. °

Fig. 12. The site of the discovery of the Cro-Magnon Race.

The foreground represents a section. —
A Limestone Cliff.
—
B Ledge overhanging the Ancient Shelter. C Debris fallen—
from the cliff in which the remains were found. D — Alluvium.
(After Quatrefages.

we can estimate the height of one only she was ;

young and measured 1560 mm. (5 ft. 3 A in.).

The discovery of the human remains at Cro-
Magnon in 1868 was made at the time when
scientists were
beginning to realize that the
history of man could be deciphered in
ancient
the caves and old rock shelters along the valleys
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
of the Dordogne and Vezere, and when a band
of young men was arising in France who
knew how to interpret the human signs found
there. We owe our knowledge of the Cro-Magnon
race to the French School of Anthropologists.
Ed. Lartet, a member of the older school, recog-
nized the antiquity of the race and defined its
characteristics as found in the south-west of
France ; members of the modern school, Verneau,
Boule, Riviere, and Cartailhac, have extended that
knowledge by their researches in the cliff caves of
Monaco, in the south-east of France. The Cro-
Magnon race was discovered at a period when,
under Darwin's influence, anthropologists ex-
pected to find man becoming more primitive in
mind and body as his history was traced into the
past. The discovery at Cro-Magnon showed that
the evolution of human types was not an orderly
one, for, in size of brain, and in stature, the race
which flourished in the south of Europe at the close
of the Glacial Period was one of the finest the
world has ever seen. Yet they must have been
grim-visaged and savage-looking men.
When ascending the sides of the valley of the
Thames, from the more recent deposits where the
Tilbury man was found to the upper and older
terrace where the Galley Hill man was unearthed,
mention was made of the discovery in an inter-
mediate terrace of the Dartford cranium by Mr.
W. M. Newton. How closely it is allied to the
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 AN ANCIENT RACE OF TALL MEN
Cro-Magnon type may be seen by comparing it
with the specimens found in France. The brain
capacity of the Dartford cranium is 1750 cc, at
least 250 cc. above the average of modern men.
The French specimens also show an equally great
capacity in one case Verneau estimates the brain
;

chamber to be capable of holding 1800 to 2000 cc.

The length of the skull is great in the Dartford
;

skull it is 207 mm. in the five French skulls the

;

length varies from 194 to 211 mm. in length the ;

skull rivalled or outstripped the crania of the

—
Galley Hill a race which appeared long before
the Cro-Magnon in Europe. In the width of the
skull there is a great difference in these ancient
types in the Galley Hill type the width varies
;

between 130 and 140 mm. in the Cro-Magnon it

;

varies between 140 and 150 mm. In the Dartford

specimen it is 150 mm. Most of the Cro-Magnon
skulls, although wide, are only of medium height ;

the highest point in the roof is usually not more

than 120 mm. above the ear passages. The fore-
head is wide and the eyebrow ridges well marked.
The contour of the back of the head is charac-
teristic. As in the Galley Hill race the occipital
part of the head projects rather prominently, but
the crown of the head, in place of arching upwards
from the occiput as in the Galley Hill race, is
flattened, as if the upper and back part of the crown
had been plastic and struck by a spade. Unfortun-
ately in the Dartford specimen the face is missing,
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
and it is in the face as well as in the stature that
the characteristics of the race are to be found.

CRO-MAGNON G3
DARTFORD

Fig. 13. Profile of a Cro-Magnon skull with the outline of the

Dartford cranium traced on it. (One-third natural size.)

Thus, such evidence as there is in England, and

admittedly the evidence is slight, points to the
existence of the Cro-Magnon race in England at
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 AN ANCIENT RACE OF TALL MEN
a period long after the Galley Hill race. It is in
France itself that we find evidence as to
the
period at which the Cro-Magnon men appeared in
Europe. Their brains were large, and we naturally
expect signs of a high mental development. In
their hands art reached a stage of realism which
has never been surpassed they engraved the
;

animals they hunted on bone and ivory with the

accurate eye and hand of the true artist. Their
implements of flint and bone are characteristic ;

hence the strata in the floors of caves formed

during the time of the Cro-Magnon race can be
recognized. The chief period of the Cro-Magnon
race is named the Magdelenien, because in the
La Madeleine rock shelter in the valley of the
Vezere, three miles above Cro-Magnon, remains
of their civilization are found abundantlv. The
strata of the Magdelenien Period lie superficial to,
and are more recent than, the Aurignacien strata
in which Hauser found the long and narrow headed
Combe-Capelle man (Fig. 10, p. 52), who appears
to represent the Galley Hill race in the south of
France. In the long interval between the Aurig-
nacien and Magdelenien, a third epoch is some-
—
times distinguished the Solutreen. The Cro-
Magnon type is also found in this period. The
Cro-Magnon race thus appears in Europe later
than the Galley Hill type, but it is discovered with
its art and its great physique already in lull

development. Its cradle and the place of its

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
evolution have not been found as yet, but from
many points in structure which recall the Mon-

CRO-MAGNON "TYPE .

Fig. 14. Face view of the Cro-Magnon Race.

(One-third natural size )

golian type we may expect to find the earlier

history of the Cro-Magnon race when our re-
searches have been carried into the centre of
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 AN ANCIENT RACE OF TALL MEN
Asia and the Far East. The wide, diort lace, the
extremely prominent cheek borjes, the spread of
the palate and a tendency for the upper incisors
to project forwards, and the narrow-pointed chin,
recall a facial type which is best seen to-day in
tribes living in Asia to the north and to the south
of the Himalayas. In some features, especially as
regards their stature, the Cro-Magnon race recall
the Sik hs living to the south of the Himalayas.
To some extent they resemble the Esquimaux, a
people that now represent the Magdelenien grade
of civilization.
The explorations of the caves on the shorts of
the Riviera near Mentone, under the auspices of
the Prince of Monaco, have extended our know-
ledge of the Cro-Magnon type. The remains of the
two negroids of Grimaldi, it will be remembered,
were found in the Grotte des Enfants below strata
which had accumulated in the course of long ages to
—
a depth of 8A metres over 28 feet. The Grimaldi
remains rested on a stratum which was evidently
formed in a warm period, for it contained the
remains of animals which we associate with a
semi-tropical climate. In a stratum nearly j feet
above the one containing the negroids was found
the skeleton of a splendid specimen of the Cro-
Magnon race. Remains of the fauna of a cooler
climate then appear. If the reindeer then sought
the climate it now prefers we may conclude that
the temperature of the south of France resembled
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
that which now prevails in the north of Europe
and did so for a long period, for in the strata
formed over the Cro-Magnon burial, to the extent
of 20 feet, remains of the reindeer occur. There
is evidence to show that the Cro-Magnon type
persisted in Europe throughout the long period
marked by the presence of the reindeer.
The Cro-Magnon man was tall ; the individual
found in the Enfants stood about
Grotte des
6 it. j in. in lite. Ili^ long collar hours show he

was wide-shouldered, with a great breadth _of

chest. His thigh bones were long and straight
and their shafts shaped like a razor, so strongly
pronounced was the ridge for the attachment of
muscles on its posterior aspect. The leg bones,
or tibiae, as in the Grimaldi and in negroid races,
were relatively and absolutely long. There are in
thisand a number of other features the short, —
wide face, the prominent cheek bones and pointed
—
chin also traces of the negroid in the Cro-Magnon
race.
By the end of the reindeer period the Cro-
Magnon race seems have been absorbed by
to
other races. The type has been identified amongst
the Neolithic inhabitants of Switzerland. In
form head the natives of England who buried
of
their dead in long_ mounds or barrows have much
in common with the Cro-Magnon race. Although
there is no race in Europe to-day that can be re-
garded as representative of this Paleolithic people,
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 AN ANCIENT RACE OF TALL MEN
yet in Germany, Switzerland, France, and Britain
individuals of this type are not ^are. They are
the tall men of commanding mien. It is likely
enough that Cro-Magnon blood may be in their
veins, but time and civilization have lengthened
their faces, reduced the prominence of their cheek
bones, diminished the strength of their jaws, and
opened out their eye-sockets, thus removing the
lowering sour visage which characterized the Cro-
Magnon face.
-j u S s
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 CHAPTER VIII

THE ROUND-HEADED TYPE

7 NTIL the last chapter the various types of
v_J man were followed in orderly sequence into
—
the far past from the woman of the buried Neo-
lithic surface ofEssex to the Galley Hill man in
the ioo-foot terrace of the Thames Valley. The
period of time thus covered is that involved in
the erosion of the deeper part of the Thames
Valley, namely, the part below the level of the
ioo-foot terrace. It was necessary to retrace
our steps in the last chapter, so that the Cro-
Magnon type might be placed in its proper
sequence. It is now necessary to retrace our steps
to a more recent period than that considered
in the last chapter, to find the appearance of
—
another type the r ound-headed or brachvce phahc
type. In modern times the round or short head
is the predominating type in Europe. All the
races we have hitherto considered have had long
and narrow heads, the form which is still the pre-
vailing type in Britain, the United States, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and Norway. It
is only 4000 to 5000 years since the round heads

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or Celts appeared in Britain. In the Continent
they appeared much earlier. In the limestone
caves of Furfooz in the valley of the Lesse, a
tributary of the Meuse, the Belgian archaeologist,
Ed. Dupont, excavated in 1867 two crania one —
of a man, the other of a woman. They are the
types of the Furfooz rj.ce. The remains of _the
mammoth were embedded in the same layer, so
the Furfooz race may have been a contemporary
of the Cro-Magnon race, and its appearance must
be assigned to the vnd of the last Glacial Period.
The skulls are small, and at once remind one of
the " river-bed " type found in England towards
the beginning of the Neolithic Period, if not earlier.
They are shorter and wider than the river-bed
skulls ;in the male the length is only 174 mm., in
the female 172 mm. ;the width in the male is

79 per cent and m the female

.
mp_er o nt, oi the

length. In the opinion of the writer these Furfooz

individuals are really of the same race as .the
" river-bed " people of England, but show a

marked tendency to a decrease in the length and

an increase in the width of the skull. The Furfooz
race was one with small heads and low >tatirre.

To find a purer type of a round-headed people

one must go fart her jeast] than Belgium, to Cren-
elle (a western suburban district of Paris), and
to Solutre, in the valley of the Rhone near Lyons.
From these places Ouatrefages and Hamy have
described seven skulls found with remains that

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
assign them same early age as the Furfooz
to the
type, but they show a more marked degree of
brachycephaly. In all of them the width varies
between 83 and 85 per cent of the length. They
are markedly and typically brachycephalic the ;

posterior or occipital part of the head, instead of

forming a prominent backward projection, is
pressed forwards and flattened, so that the back
of the head seems to rise in line with the back of
the neck. The meaning or significance of this
occipital flattening we do not know all that we
;

are certain of that it is not a Simian or primitive

is

feature, but one acquired in the course of the

evolution of the higher types of man. It is true
that in our modern way of describing the head the
skulls of the anthropoids are also brachyceplialic
the width of the cranial cavity is 80 per cent or.
more of its length, but width is
in their case the
due to the fact that the brain is flattened from
above downwards. Brachycephaly in the ape
and in man are of quite different natures. The
important aspect of the discoveries at Furfooz
and Grenelle for the anthropologist is the appear-
ance of round-headed type of man in the
a
north-east of France some considerable time
before the present temperate climate settled in
Europe. Discoveries have been made showing
long-headed races abounded in France, in
Germany, in Switzerland, and in Bohemia in
early Neolithic times. Now the case is quite

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different ; the round-headed type prevails in these
countries ; he seems to be the conquering type.
As the Neolithic Period comes to an end, he
becomes more and more the predominating type.
Since the close of the Glacial Period he has suc-
ceeded in ousting his long-headed brother from
the larger and richer countries of Europe. Were
it not for the discovery of new continents the long

and medium-headed races would have cut a poor

figure in the world of to-day. We see now that
the round heads hold the continents of Europe
and Asia from France and Germany in the Wes t
to Japan in the East, and from the shores of the
White Sea to those of the Mediterranean. As
Slav and as Mongolian, he is the dominating type.
Within historic and traditional times the invading
waves, so far as Europe is concerned, have origin-
ated in Russian territory. Russia forms the
breeding centre and probably the cradle of the
type, The origin "1 the round head lies Ear back
in the past, and its origin is more likely to be dis-
covered by archaeological research in the dominions
of the Czar than anywhere else in the world.

Reference. — Ouatrefages et Hamy. Crania

Ethnica. Paris, 1882.

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 CHAPTER IX

HEIDELBERG MAN

THE various
described are
forms of
modern
ancient
body
man
in their build of
so far
;

were they to appear again on earth they would

not be out of place amongst the various present
races of mankind. It would be otherwise with the
Neanderthal type of man he would be altogether
;

out of place in the modern world an anatomist ;

could distinguish him at a glance from any modern

man, black or white, so many and distinct are his
characteristic features. Indeed, the famous anato-
mist of Strassburg, Professor Schwalbe, proposed
to name all the extinct races of the Neanderthal
type by the name of Homo primigenius to distin-
,

guish them ffom Homo sapiens, to which all

modern races, savage and civilized, belong. There
is no reason to suppose, however, that the
specific differences are so great that representa-
tives of Homo sapiens and of Homo primigenius,
if mated together, would not produce fertile off-
spring. The supposition we proceed on at the
present time is that the Neanderthal type is the
precursor and ancestor of the modern type. The
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 HEIDELBERG MAN
Neanderthal type represents an extinct stage in
the evolution of man. Races of the modern type
were certainly evolved before the close of the
Glacial Period and long before the Thames had
cut its bed down to the level of the ioo-foot
terrace. We may allow a period of at least
200,000 years to have elapsed since the modern
type of man appeared : the probability is that his
antiquity is infinitely greater, for he is fully evolved
when we meet him first. The Neanderthal type
was certainly evolved before the beginning of the
Pleistocene or Glacial Period, so that the origin
of this type preceded the origin of the modern
type by many hundred thousand years. Some
geologists estimate the length of the Pleistocene
Period at i| million years.
The earliest trace of the Neanderthal type of
man yet found was discovered in the valley of the
Neckar, some six miles above the famous German
University town of Heidelberg. Only a lower jaw was
found, but no single bone can tell more of the body
to which it belonged than a mandible. The sands of
Mauer in which the jaw was found lie on the south
side of the valley of the Neckar, some three and a
half miles from the river. The sands were laid
down in the bed of the ancient river soon after the
Pleistocene Period began. We should never have
known the secrets locked up in those Mauer sands
had it not been for the happy chance that they are
excavated and worked for building purposes. It
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
is also fortunate that the owner of these great
sandpits was keenly interested in the fossil re-
mains, and gave Professor Otto Schoetensack, of

MA.UER
SANDS

Fig. 15.A diagram of the strata of the pit in which the

I Iui< lelberg mandible was found. A cross marks the spot.
(After Schoetensack.)

Heidelberg University, every encouragement to

examine and record the strange things that were
found from time to time. In October, 1907, when
the mandible was encountered, the working face
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 HEIDELBERG MAN
of the pithad reached a depth from the surface of
a over 80 feet. The face shows three forma-
little

tions an upper deposit about 19 feet in thickness

:

of recent loess —
a chalky clay a second about
;

17 feet in depth of older loess containing remains

of the mammoth and other members of the late
glacial fauna a third, 46 feet deep, consisting
;

of layers of sand laid down by the ancient Neckar.

The layer in which the mandible was found is
3 feet from the bottom of the third layer (Fig. 15).
It is very evident that an enormous interval of
time has elapsed since the lower strata of the
Mauer sands were laid down. The animals then
living in the central part of Europe were mark-
edly different from the modern forms. Bones and
teeth of an extinct rhinoceros (R. Etruscus) are
found in the same layers as the human mandible,
and the presence of this animal shows the sands
were laid down near the beginning of the Pleisto-
cene Period. A kind of horse was also found which
indicates an early date. The fauna is very similar
to that found in the Norfolk beds of England, and
they are deeper and much older than the glacial
boulder clay. Although many of the animal forms
living in the Neckar Valley then have become
extinct, others, such as the red deer, the roe deer,
and the pig, have come down to modern times un-
changed. Man has changed, but to a less extent than
anthropologists of a past generation anticipated.
The Heidelberg man had a massive jaw, which
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
recalls, both by its size and shape, the anthropoid
rather than the modern human bone (Fig. 16). In
men of the present day the chin is prominent, pro-
jecting in advance of the lower incisor teeth, while
in the Heidelberg jaw, as in the anthropoid, the
opposite is the case. To the superficial observer the

Fig 16. Profile drawing of the Heidelberg mandible (in

outline) contrasted with the lower jaw of a Modern European
(shaded). (Half natural size.)

Heidelberg man would appear chinless, but such

is really not the case, the teeth and the alveolar,
or tooth-carrying part of the jaw, are so strongly
developed that they mask the lower or chin part.
In modern Europeans the teeth, in the total
length of their grinding surface, are 10 mm.
(| in.) less than in the Heidelberg man. There
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 HEIDELBERG MAN
has been a reduction in dental development, with
the result that the teeth and the alveolar part of
the jaw have retreated and left the chin prominent.
While the upper or alveolar part of the jaw varies
according to the size of the teeth, the lower border
of the jaw on which the chin is set varies according
mouth. In order to
to the size of the floor of the
allow a free movement tongue and of other
of the
parts concerned in speech movements, the lower
border of the jaw, which bounds the floor of the
mouth, has opened out in modern man. Speech
requires that the floor of the mouth should be
opened out to give free movements to all those
parts concerned in the easy production of speech.
Now in shape and size the Heidelberg mandible
shows a condition intermediate to the anthropoid
and the modern human forms. The anthropoid
jaw is the primitive one the mandible is framed
;

to serve the purpose of mastication the mandible

;

of modern man is modified to serve in speech. In

the Heidelberg man we must admit that the
mandible is mainly adapted for mastication. The
various modifications we with speech
associate
are also there, but in a partially developed con-
dition. The anatomical features of the mandible
indicate that human speech, of a primitive nature,
may have been present in this early form of man.
At least we reach in the Heidelberg remains a point
in the evolution of man where the possibility of
speech may be called in question.
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
From the Heidelberg jaw we learn that the
human mechanism of mastication was fully evolved
at the beginning of the Pleistocene Period. The
canine teeth which are so large and prominent in
all forms of anthropoids have in the Heidelberg

Fig. 17. Profile of the Heidelberg mandible (outline) con-

trasted with that of the mandible of a chimpanzee (shaded).
(Half natural size.)

specimen subsided to the level of the neighbouring

teeth in the dental series. We must assume that
at one period in the evolution of man the canines
were prominent and pointed as in the anthropoids,
for it is only on such a supposition that the
peculiar form of the human canine teeth, and their
position during development, can be explained.
 HEIDELBERG MAN
To understand the retrogression of the canine
teeth in man it is necessary to understand the
mechanism of mastication in anthropoids and the
part played in this act by these great teeth. In
anthropoid apes the muscles of mastication are
extremely strong, so that the toughest and most
resistant of edible things can be crushed between
the teeth. In exercising great force there is a
tendency for the lower jaw to skid or slip side-
ways, but such a movement is prevented by the
prominent canines coming into contact as the
jaws close, thus preventing a false lateral move-
ment.
The canines may serve as organs of defence or
of attack in the anthropoid as in the dog, but their
main purpose is that of dental guides for the jaws.
The peculiarity of the mastication in the ancient
forms of man was the side-to-side and oblique
movements of the lower jaw whereby the food was
crushed and pulverized between the upper and
lower teeth. Such chewing movements were im-
possible so long as the canine teeth projected
beyond the level of the other teeth. The retro-
gression of the canine teeth in the primitive human
stock and the evolution from the anthropoid to
the early human mechanism of mastication must
be sought for in the Pliocene Period or even
earlier. In early Pleistocene man the evolution of
the human dentition was already completed.
A study of the Heidelberg mandible shows how
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
rough and tough the precarious diet of this early
race of man must have been. The part of the
mandible which ascends to become jointed with
the base of the skull and to receive the attachment
of the muscles of mastication is of enormous size.
The area of its outer surface is 34 ctm 2 that of a
,

modern man is 18 ctm'2 a little more than half.

,

The masseter muscle corresponds in size to the

outer surface of the ascending ramus we may
;

assume that the surface area of the masseter was

twice that of the modern muscle and its thickness
was correspondingly great. The masseter was
three or four times greater in the Heidelberg man
than it is now in most Europeans hence the
;

massive and strong build of his jaw. The crowns

of the teeth, however, are not particularly large,
nor are they peculiar in shape. Certainly a small
proportion of modern Europeans and a large pro-
portion of negroid races can show more massive
teeth. Even at this early point in human evolu-
tion the crowns of the teeth had assumed a truly
human character in size and form, but it was other-
wise with their roots. It is plain that the great
strain to which the teeth would be subjected in
side-to-side and oblique movements executed by
extremely stout chewing muscles makes a firm
and strong implantation in the jaws a necessity.
Hence we find the necks and roots of the Heidel-
berg teeth are peculiar. Their necks are almost
as large as their crowns, and the roots have be-
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 HEIDELBERG MAN
come so massive, strong and thick that they have
grown together. In modern molars the roots of
the hinder teeth are apt to fuse, but in this case
the fusion is due to an actual approximation of
the roots, a result of retrogression in the ancient
;

Heidelberg man the fusion was the result of over-

growth. So peculiar are the roots, so unlike the
same structures in the modern type of man and in
anthropoids, that Dr. Adloff thinks the Heidelberg
man. and the Neanderthal type to which he
belongs, cannot be regarded as a stage in the
evolution of modern man. In the writer's opinion
the form of root just described is a specialization

which appeared and subsequently disappeared

when the special adaptation was no longer required.
The case is similar to the biceps of the blacksmith ;

the hypertrophy disappears when vigorous de-

mands cease to be made on it. When knowledge
ameliorated the quality of the human diet, the
overgrown condition in the roots of the teeth dis-
appeared.
Although we know only the lower jaw, the size
and shape of the palate of the Heidelberg man
can be inferred with some degree of accuracy. The
arrangement and size of the teeth in the upper jaw
have a definite relationship to those of the lower
jaw hence we may estimate the size of the palate
;

from the lower teeth. The area of the Heidelberg

palate was about 3600 mm 2 whereas the area of
,

the palate of an average modern Englishman is

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
only about 2600 mm 2
The length of the palate,
.

when measured from between the crowns of the

central incisors to a point midway between the
posterior borders of the last molars, must have
been about 62 mm. Heidelberg man, while
in the
in the modern English palate the length is 54 mm.
The width of the palate as measured between the
outer borders of the second molar teeth was
probably 72 mm. in the Heidelberg man in the ;

modern Englishman it measures on the average

about 58 mm. The feature of the Heidelberg palate
was its absolute and relative width. In anthropoids
the outstanding feature of the palate is the gre.t
length, absolute end relative. The width of the
palate in the early Neanderthal type of man was
probably due to the side-to-side movements in
chewing. The evolutionary forces then at work
had a tendency to widen and not to elongate the
palate, and thus to obtain a wide but not a project-
ing or prognathous development of the upper jaw.
The jaws of these early human beings were primitive
enough, but certainly not simian. At even this early
stage the simian condition was long past. It is a re-
markable fact that there is a tendency to narrow-
ing of the palate and jaws in modern civilized
races.
From the Heidelberg lower jaw it is possible to
give an approximate reconstruction of the whole
head. The manner in which the upper teeth can
lie placed in position and the size and shape of
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 HEIDELBERG MAN
the palate estimated have just been mentioned.
The condyle of the jaw gives the situation of the

.<*""

.-*

••••,
!

-C*-.

Fig. iS. Heidelberg mandible with attempted reconstruction

of the head. (One-third natural size.)

maxillary articulation on the base of the skull.

To this joint the ear, the mastoid process, and the
root of the zygomatic arch, from which the mas-

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
seter muscle bear definite and constant
arises,
relations. The widthof the ascending ramus of
the jaw gives a clue to the termination of the
zygomatic arch on the face and affords certain
indications of the size of the orbit. The width of
the jaw, between its codyles, affords an indication
of the breadth of the base of the skull. When,
however, we begin to construct the roof-part
of the skull we have to fall back on certain definite
rules which have safely guided men in the past
when reconstructing extinct forms. The rule is

that of correlationship of parts ; the bones of any

animal form parts of a harmonious mechanism ;

ifthe type of animal is known, then the discovery

of a single bone indicates the nature and form of
the whole skeleton. Now there can be no doubt
as to the nature of the Heidelberg jaw it is of the
;

form known to occur in the Neanderthal type of

man. It is certainly stronger and more massive
than any sample yet found, but nevertheless one
can be absolutely certain that the head form of
the Heidelberg man was of the Neanderthal shape
(Fig. 19). In Neanderthal man the skull was
peculiarly fixed to the neck of the individual.
The head was tilted backwards and carried
permanently in this manner, so that the muscles
of the neck were attached much higher up the
occiput than in modern races. In modern man,
as in the young of anthropoids, the head is balanced
or evenly poised on the neck. In races of the
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present day this poise continues throughout life,

but in Neanderthal man, as in anthropoids, the

position of the head to the neck changed as adult
years were reached. The sterno-mastoid muscles
which play a leading part in balancing the head
on the neck are attached to bony elevations

Fig. 19 Profiles of the Heidelberg (outline) and Spy (shaded)

mandibles superimposed for comparison. (Half natural size.)

situated just behind the ear, known as the mastoid

processes. The}- vary in shape according to the
manner in which the head is fixed to the neck.
Hence in Neanderthal man the mastoid processes
are quite unlike the pyramidal-shaped processes of
modern races. Indeed, they at once recall the
same processes in the gorilla skull. In the manner
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
of head fixation Neanderthal man retains a dis-
tinct trace of the anthropoid form. The tilting
back of the head and its carriage in this position
is a necessary result of great jaw development.
To make room for a large mandible with a corre-
spondingly large tongue and throat, the head
must be held in a position of backward extension.
The erect poise of the head in modern man is a
direct result of the reduction in the masticatory
apparatus. As early as the Galley Hill man, and
probably long before his time, this reduction had
been accomplished.
To carry such a jaw as the Heidelberg the
breadth of the base of the skull must have been
approximately 145 to 150 mm. wide and its length
over 200 mm. These are dimensions known to
occur in the Neanderthal type of man. The skulls
were extremely massive. The strong ridge of
bone which crossed the forehead just over the
orbits we may be certain was present, because
the threat muscles of mastication demand this
additional strengthening of the face. The supra-
orbital ridge (torus supraorbitalis) is a characteristic
of the Neanderthal type of man. When, however,
we come to estimate the brain capacity of the
Heidelberg cranium, we find the data at our dis-
posal are insufficient to give any certain indication.
Although the mandible is more massive and more
primitive in form than those of known Nean-
derthal individuals it is exactly of the same type,
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and we may infer that the brain capacity was
probably less but not greatly less. Now it has
become known in recent years that we greatly
underrated the brain development of the Nean-
derthal race they had large brains. Indeed, in
;

some instances they are markedly above the

modern average. If, therefore, we assign a cranial

capacity of 1300 cc. to the Heidelberg man we

shall probably be under rather than above the truth.
Thus the earliest trace of the skeleton of man
yet found in Europe must be assigned to a period
which carries us back many hundred thousands of
years, almost to the beginning of the geological
epoch which preceded the present. Yet even at
that early date we find man already evolved,
brutish perhaps in appearance, savage no doubt
in his nature, yet large-brained, erect in posture,
and in every sense of the biologist —a man.

References. — Prof. Otto Schoetensack : Do-

Unterkiefer des Homo Heidelburgensis. Leip-
zig, 1908.
MacCurdy " Recent Dis-
Prof. George G. :

coveries Bearing on the Antiquity of Man

in Europe." Smithsonian Reports, 1909,
pp. 53i-<s :»-

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 CHAPTER X
KRAPINA MEN

THEwas discovery of
made in
the
1907.
Heidelberg mandible
In the previous year
Professor Karl Gorjanovic-Kramberger —known to
his German colleagues as G. K. — published a mag-
nificent memoir, in which he gave an account of the
remains of a very ancient people discovered in the
Hungarian Province of Croatia. It is important
to note the scene of the discovery. Soon after
the Save, one of the largest tributaries of the
Danube, crosses the north-west frontier of Croatia,
it is joined by the Krapinica, a small river on

which the village of Krapina is situated. A little

way above Krapina the stream flows through a
glen with steep sides of sandstone rock. It was
on the western side, 80 feet (25 metres) above the
present level of the stream, that remains of the
Krapina men were found. Extensive explorations
made between 1899 and 1905 revealed an ancient
cave completely filled up and obscured by strata
26 feet in thickness, which had been laid down
when an extinct form of rhinoceros (R. merckii or
leptorhinns) and a Neanderthal type of man were
living in Croatia. This form of rhinoceros is not so

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ancient as the Etruscan species found with the
Heidelberg man, but it is older than the woolly
rhinoceros (R. tichorhinus) which flourished with
,

a Neanderthal man at a later date in the Pleisto-

cene Period of France and Belgium. A rough
indication of the antiquity of the cave strata may
be obtained from the erosion of the valley. The
strata on the floor of the cave were deposited by
the Krapinica ; since then that stream has worn
out a valley in the sandstone 80 feet below the
level of the floor of the cave. The ice sheet never
reached Croatia, so we must regard the erosion of
the valley as the work of the stream alone. While
the strata on the floor of the cave were laid down
by the stream the upper layers of the cave or rock
shelter were formed by debris which had fallen
from time to time from the overhanging cliff. In
these strata as many as nine distinct levels or
floors were noted containing signs of human habita-
tion. Traces of hearths were found as deep as the
stream-formed layer on the floor of the cave. Stone
implements occurred throughout of a primitive
type ; some implements crudely shaped from the
splintered bones of the rhinoceros were found.
Remains of the cave bear abounded, many of the
bones being half burned, and all split or broken.
Over 230 human teeth and 200 fragments of the
human skeleton were recovered during the excava-
tions. The conditions of some of/ the fragments
suggested to their discoverer that these human
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bones were remains of cannibalistic feasts.
At no complete human bone was found, and
least,
there were no signs of burial. From the fragments
found, representing at least ten individuals, a
fairly complete picture can be formed of the
ancient race of Krapina.
The Krapina men are later than the Heidelberg,
but how much later it is difficult to say. The
animals which accompanied them represent a
more recent fauna than those found in the Mauer
sands. No implement or product of the Heidelberg
man's workmanship is known. The implements
of the Krapina men, according to Rutot's judg-
ment, vary widely as regards their design some ;

are of a kind belonging to a period which antedates

—
the Mousterien Period the one in which the
Neanderthal race flourished in France, while
others are of the Aurignacien Period, which fol-
lowed the Mousterien. The Krapina implements
do not help us much as regards date. Two things
are manifest, however : (i) that the shelter or
cave excavated by Kramberger must have been
the home of man for many generations a floor —
which is composed of 24 feet of debris is not quickly
formed ;(2) the fragments of the skeleton found
in these strata are sufficient to show that, with a
great variety of form as regards age, sex, and
individuals, there is the same type throughout.
The men of Krapina represent a variant of the
Neanderthal type.
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The Heidelberg and Krapina men are probably
separated by a long interval of time, apparently
represented by one of the many climatic revolu-
tions which divide the Glacial Age into three or
more periods. If we assign the Heidelberg man
to the first Interglacial Period, we should place
the Krapina man in the second. The Krapina
man had discovered the use of fire, a discovery
which must lead to a radical change in the nature
of human diet and to the conditions of life. One
can understand how such a discovery may lead
to a complete alteration in the bodily development
of man in the course of many generations.
Besides fragments, a complete lower jaw
many
was discovered. In all its dimensions, except two,
this Krapina jaw is smaller than the Heidelberg
example. The two characters in which it exceeds
that specimen may be mentioned first. The depth
of the jaw at the symphysis or chin in the Heidel-
berg specimen is 33 mm., not much more than is
usual in modern jaws in the Krapina specimen
;

the symphysial depth was 42 mm. In the Krapina

mandible the condyles of the jaw were set half an
inch wider apart than in the Heidelberg, and an
inch more than is usual in modern men. That
indicates a very wide base to the skull. In all
other dimensions this singular jaw from Krapina
is less than the Heidelberg there was clearly a
:

smaller development of the muscles of mastication.

The Krapina palate was also smaller than the
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Heidelberg one. In length it varied from 55
to 62 mm., and in width from 66 to 73 mm.
The teeth, however, retain the peculiar roots, and in
the dimensions and characters of their crowns they
exceed those of the Heidelberg man and resemble
some of the modern negroid races. The mandibles
varied greatly in size and character amongst the
Krapina folk ; some as regards their ascending
ramus did not differ very much from modern races,
but these were probably the bones of women.
It is at Krapina we obtain our first glimpse of
the difference in the build of the body in man and
woman, and it is there, too, we get our knowledge
of children of the Neanderthal race. The women
were of a much lighter build than the men ; the
supra orbital ridges were less developed and less
simian. The bones of the skulls were thinner, the
jaws less massive and robust in the women, and the
thigh bones of the two sexes showed as great, if not
greater differences than are seen in modern races.
In early man, as is also the case among anthropoids,
the male was endowed with a more massive, robust,
and brutish body than the female. In the progress
towards the modern type, children lead the way,
women follow, and men bring up the rear.
Although no complete or even approximately
complete human skull was found af Krapina, it is
clear that they differ very materially from all other
Neanderthal crania which have been discovered.
They are shorter, the longest being 197 mm., and
 KRAPINA MEN
the common length appears to have been 190 mm.,
or in some much less. In specimens of the
cases
Neanderthal race found in other parts of Europe, the
length is usually over 200 mm. On the other hand,
the Krapina heads were wide ; the common width
was evidently about 145 mm., but in some cases
it amounted to 165 mm. The width of the head
varied from 75 to 85 per cent of the length, so we
have here clear evidence of a tendency to round-
headedness or brachycephaly. The skulls of
anthropoids are brachycephalic and also flattened
on the top, so that a cast of the brain cavity ap-
pears flat and wide. This was also the case in
the Krapina men. Flattening of the top is a
character of the Neanderthal head. As regards
the size of the brain the Krapina men had a fair
endowment, the cranial capacity probably varied
between 1300 and 1500 cc, not very different from
that of modern men.
We have only one fragmentary specimen to
guide us in framing a picture of the face. So far as
this specimen can be reconstructed, it is so similar
to the completely preserved face of the Gibraltar
skull that its description may be postponed until
that example is described. It is enough at present
to say that the face was massive and particularly
long, the eye - sockets were spacious and sur-
mounted by beetling brows, the cheeks were full
but although the jaw was wide and massive, there
was no projecting muzzle as in the ape. As to the
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colour of the skin, one can say nothing for certain,
but the characters of the teeth are those we now
see in negroid races, and I for one would be sur-
prised to know that the skins of the Krapina men
were European in complexion. If not so dark as in
the typical negro, they were probably pigmented.
It must be remembered that we are dealing now
with a type of men which preceded all races of the
modern type. All the evidence at present at our
disposal points to the fair-skinned European as one
of the latest products of human evolution. The
common ancestral stock from which every modern
race is descended must have been negroid in
nature. It is possible that the Neanderthal type
of man may represent such a stock.

—
Reference. Prof. Karl Gorjanovic-Kramberger :

Der Diluviale Mensch von Krapina. Wies-

baden, 1906.
 CHAPTER XI

NEANDERTHAL MAN

ON the north side of the valley of the lower

Rhine, between Diisseldorf and Eberfeld, a
deep gorge, known as Neanderthal, has been cut
in limestone rocks, by a small tributary of the
Rhine. On the south side of the gorge, some
60 feet above the level of the stream and 100
below the top of the cliff, there is a small cave in
which the remains of the Neanderthal type of man
were first discovered. The discovery was made
in the spring of 1857. Certain bones found in the
loam of the floor of the cave, at a depth of 4 or 5
feet, came into the possession of Dr. Fuhlrott.
So unfamiliar were they in appearance that several
weeks elapsed before their owner recognized them
as human. Fairly complete examples of all the
long-limb bones were found as well as the roof or
calvaria of a skull. In 1858 Dr. Schaafhausen, a
skilled anthropologist, published an excellent ac-
count of the bones thus discovered, and from that
date to this these human remains have puzzled
and fascinated anatomists throughout the world
and been the subject of many an acrimonious dis-
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
pute. Huxley recognized in them the features of
a new and very ancient type of man Virchow said
;

they were the bones of a modern man suffering

from a peculiar disease in later days Professor
;

Schwalbe applied to them his new methods of in-

vestigation, and declared the Neanderthal remains
to be the prototype of an extinct kind or species
of man. To this species hegave the name of Homo
Primigenius, in distinction to the modern type to
which the name of Homo sapiens is restricted.
We know now that the men who lived in Europe
during the earlier and greater part of the Glacial
—
Period one estimated to have extended over a
period of from 500,000 to 1,500,000 years were —
of the Neanderthal type.
After the discovery of a human skeleton in the
cave at Neanderthal attempts were made to
obtain evidence as to the probable antiquity of the
remains. In the strata of the floor of a neighbour-
ing cave, bones of the mammoth (Elephas primi-
genius) and woolly rhinoceros (R. tichorhinus) were
found ;the presence of these animals indicates
a date towards the end of the Glacial Age, probably
the third and last of the interglacial temperate
periods. The date of the Neanderthal man would
thus be later than the Krapina race, which has been
assigned to the second Interglacial Period. More
recently, however, Konstantin Koenen has found
evidence in Neanderthal that makes it possible to
assign these Croatian and South German repre-
 NEANDERTHAL MAN
sentatives of the Neanderthal type to the same
period.
A comparison of the calvaria'of the Neanderthal

SPY c
GM-LEY HILL -

Fig. 20. Outline of Neanderthal form of skull (shaded)

compared with the Galley Hill type (outline). (One-third
natural size.)

skull with the corresponding part of the Galley

Hill man will bring out its peculiar features. Both
are very long skulls, the Neanderthal being
203 mm., the Galley Hill '
some 2 mm. more.
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
The factors which make up the length are different
in the first-named, the brain amounts to 174 mm.
of the length, the additional 29 mm. being due
to the thickness of the skull bones in the Galley
;

Hill type the brain factor amounts to 187 mm.,

the bones 18 mm. In the one case the great length
is due to the thickness of the skull, in the other
to length of brain. supra-orbital bar of bone
The
which crosses the forehead of the Neanderthal
skull above the orbits is so thick that it makes up
23 mm. of the total length, while in the Galley
Hill man the supra-orbital thickness amounts to
only 13 mm. The supra-orbital bar or torus is a
feature of the Neanderthal type, and, as has been
already explained, its development is related to
the great forward growth of the muscles of masti-
cation on the frontal region. The extreme width
of the supra-orbital bar as measured from one side
of the forehead to the other is 126 mm. in the
Neanderthal calvaria, and only 106 a modern —
—
width in the Galley Hill. The great size of the
supra-orbital torus gives the forehead of the Nean-
derthal man a receding appearance, and this is
emphasized by its great width just above the

eyes.
A
comparison of the manner in which the skull
ishafted or fixed to the neck brings out another
important difference between the Neanderthal
man on the one hand, and the Galley Hill and
modern man on the other. The permanent tilting

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back of the head in the more ancient type has
already been mentioned, so has the upgrowth of
the muscles on the occiput of the head. Thus
it comes about that in the Neanderthal skull the

inion which marks the upper limit of the attach-

ment of neck muscles is 20 to 25 mm. above the
upper limit of the cerebellum. In modern men the
inion is just below the upper level of the cerebellum.
The failure to recognize this important difference
in the position of the inion has led to an under-
estimation of the height of that part of the skull
which contains the cerebrum. If the height of
the skull is measured from the level of the inion
the Neanderthal skull appears very low and thus
comparatively small ; but if — in a more correct
way —the posterior-inferior angle of the parietal
bone is taken to mark the lower cerebral level,

then the height of the Neanderthal and Galley Hill

crania are not very different in the first the
;

cerebral height is 100 mm., and in the second 97mm.

As regards width of brain and skull the Nean-
derthal is the greater ;the skull- width is 150 mm.,
the brain-width is 13S mm. In the Galley Hill
man the width of the skull is 12 mm., and the brain
8 mm. less. The size of the cranial cavity in the
Neanderthal type was much under-estimated. In
place of being 1230 cc, as Huxley supposed, it is
over 1500 cc, as Manouvrier and Boule have
estimated. It is a striking fact that the brain had
reached, as regards size, more than a modern
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
degree of development in the Neanderthal type ;

indeed, 1480 cc.is usually accepted as an average

for modern man.

It was not only in the massiveness of his skull
and jaws that Neanderthal man was peculiar. The
bones of his limbs were very thick and rather
clumsy as well as short. The difference is well
illustrated by comparing his thigh bone with that
of a modern man of average height, 5 ft. 8 in.

Fig. 21. Thigh bone of Neanderthal (outline) and modern man

(shaded) contrasted. (One-fifth natural size.)

1720 mm. In^the Neanderthal man the femur

was 438 mm. long, and the height of his massive
body is estimated to have been about 5 ft. 4 in.
(1620 mm.). The limb bones were shaped dif-
ferently to ours. The head of the femur and its
lower end which forms part of the knee-joint are
larger and more clumsy in their build than in the
femur of modern man. All the joints of the body
were big. The shaft of the thigh bone of modern
man is rather straight and compressed from side
to side in the Neanderthal bone the shaft has
;

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a marked bend forwards in the middle, and is

much wider from side to side than from before

backwards. The explanation of these features
given by Fraipont is probably correct. Modern
man, when he comes to the position of " Atten-
tion " has no difficulty in completely extending
his legs at the knee-joint, but such a movement
would have been very difficult for a Neanderthal
man in whom the knees were kept slightly bent
even when standing and walking. Still, it is not
correct to say he had not attained the upright
posture. He walked, as modern men have a
tendency to do, with his knees always bent to a
slight degree, maintaining his posture by the
action of muscles, depending less on the check
action of ligaments than is the case with modern
men. As in all ancient human races the right
humerus was more massive and stronger than the
left. The impressions for the attachment of
muscles were more marked on the right bone than
on the left, showing that, at this early date, the
right arm was the more specialized. Man was
already right-handed.

References. —Thomas H. Huxley : Man's Place

in Nature. 1863.
Prof. G. Schwalbe Die Vorgeschicli/c des
:

Menschen. Braunsschweig, 1904. " Studien

zu Vorgeschichte des Menschen." Zeitsclivijl
fur Morph. unci Anthrop., 1906, p. 5.
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
Prof. H. Klaatsch :
" Ergebnisse einer
'

Studienreise. ' Zcitschriftfiir Ethnologie,

1903
Bd. 35, p. 92. " Die neuesten Ergebnisse."
Zeitschrift fib- Ethnologic, 1909, Bd. 41, p. 537.
See also Ergebnisse der Anatomic unci Entwicke
lungsgeschichte (Merkel and Bonnet), between
1899 and 1909.
 CHAPTER XII

NEANDERTHAL MAN IN BELGIUM AND

FRANCE

1EAVING Neanderthal and turning southwards

_j across the valley of the Rhine, a journey of
one hundred miles brings the traveller into the
valley of the Meuse, in the south of Belgium. In
this valley near Liege, Professor Schmerling dis-
covered the Engis skull in 1833. That skull, which
we have seen is intermediate to the Galley Hill
and river-bed types, was found in the floor of a
limestone cave with remains of the mammoth and
woolly rhinoceros. Some fifty miles further south
in the same valley remarkable discoveries of
Neanderthal man were made. In 1865, eight
years after the discovery at Neanderthal, Dr. Ed.
Dupont discovered part of amandible which we
know now must have belonged to an ancient
representative of the Neanderthal race in Bel-
gium. It was found in the strata of the floor of
the limestone cave at La Naulette at a depth of
36 feet, with remains of the mammoth and woolly
rhinoceros. From the characters of the jaw we
judge it to be that of a woman, but the teeth are
large. In the same district were discovered the
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
remains of the two men of Spy, perhaps the most
important discovery of Neanderthal man yet
made. In the parish of Spy, not far from Namur,
is a wooded limestone hill, of no great height. A
small stream, the Orneau, flows past its base. On
the southern face of the hill, some sixty feet above
the level of the stream, there is a cave in the lime-
stone rock, with a mound-like terrace in front of
it —
just such a cave and cliff as ancient man loved
to make his home. For our purpose he could not
«have chosen a better site than a limestone cave, be-
cause the drip of the water from the roof soaks into
and preserves whatever organic thing it happens
to fall on. In 1885 Marcel de Puydt and Max
Lohest began to explore the strata on the terrace
inirynt of the cave. The strata of the terrace were
comjjpsed of debris which the weather had de-
tached from the face of the cliff, and which had
been tramped down by generations of ancient men.
The upper 9 were barren, yielding no traces
feet
of human but below this upper
habitation ;

layer the explorers entered a second, between 2 and

3 feet in thickness, which yielded remains of the
mammoth and reindeer. Below the second was
a third layer, with remains of charred wood, of
hearths, and of human habitations. In the fourth
layer, immediately above the floor of the old cave,
which became more and more exposed on the
terrace, as the overhanging cliff crumbled' away,
there were found two male human skeletons.
 NEANDERTHAL MAN IN BELGIUM
From the position of the remains the explorers
concluded that these two men had been buried.
They were of the Neanderthal type. Evidence
of their civilization was also found their flints
;

are of the form ascribed to the Mousterien Age,

but instruments of ivory and of bone, with
engravings on the same material, show a degree
of progress when a comparison is made with
the civilization of the Krapina men. It is

said that fragments of_pottery were also found ;

that__may be so, but jt_ is possible that these fl .

fragments may have been obtained from the

'*
/
iriore_siip^rficial^trata, for in 1885 om-_explor-
atory me thods were stil l rather crud e. Bones of
the woolly rhinoceros, of the mammoth, hyaena,
cave bear, pig and Irish elk also occurred in
the same stratum as the human remains. The
fauna and the civilization are not so very different
from those of the Engis man, and yet the whole
evele of a Glacial Period probably lies between
them.
Fraipont and Lohest published an excellent
description of the Spy men in 1886 since then
;

the bones have been studied by several anatomists,

especiallyby Professor Klaatsch, of Breslau. The
two men of Spy are spoken of as No. 1 and No. 2.
The head of No. 1 is almost a replica of the
Neanderthal man No. 2 shows also the Nean-
;

derthal characters, and yet he also shows distinct

tendencies to the assumption of a more modern
in
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
form. In No. i the length, width, and cerebral
height are the following: 205, 147, and 97mm.
In No. 2 the corresponding measurements are 198,
153, and 107 mm. No. 2 has a remarkably high
head, the width is 77 per cent of the length an —
inclination to round-headedness, while in No. 1
the width index is the same as in the type speci-
men found in Neanderthal, namely, 71 per cent.
The brains of the Spy men were large, they varied
between 1500 and 1650 cubic centimetres, being
above the modern average. We of a later genera-
tion, with a fertility of mechanical invention, can
little understand the great brain which was
necessary to make the first steps towards human
civilization. The first stages of any new en-
deavour are notoriously the most difficult.
The men of Spy, if large-brained, were rather
less than the Neanderthal man in stature- they —
were only a little over five feet, but their bones
show the same stout and massive type and the
same curious carriage of head and body. The head
of Spy No. 2, as already said, shows a tendency
to assume more modern characters. In both, the
teeth are of a more modern type than those of
the Heidelberg and Krapina men. The size of the
necks of the teeth and the form and dimensions of
the roots are rather of the present-day character.
Their palates and jaws were smaller. If we assign
the Heidelberg remains to the first interglacial epoch
and the Krapina to the second, we may, I think,
 NEANDERTHAL MAN IN FRANCE
place the Spy men about the opening of the third
period. At least there are signs in the structure
of the body and in the degree of civilization that
point to the men of Spy as being distinctly later
in date than those considered in the two preceding
chapters.
In the south-west of France, some five hundred
miles from the habitat of the men of Spy, three
remarkable discoveries of men of the Neanderthal
type have been made in quite recent years. The
limestone cliffs and terraces which flank the upper
valley of the Dordogne and of its tributary, the
Vezere, the region where the remains of the men
of the Cro-Magnon and Galley Hill types were
found, were also the scene of these recent and im-
portant finds of Neanderthal man. In the be-
ginning of 1908, Herr O. Hauser discovered in a
cave near the village of Le Moustier, on the Vezere,
the skeleton of a lad, clearly of the Neanderthal
type. The skeleton thus obtained was investigated
and described by Professor Klaatsch, of Breslau.
The lad was buried in a sleeping posture, with
flints of his period laid with him. Later in the
same year, also in a floor of a cave, MM. les Abbes
J. Bouyssonie and A. Bouyssonie and L. Bardon
found the skeleton of an old man also of the same
type near the village of La Chapelle-aux-Saints,
some distance to the east of Le Moustier, in the
Department of Correze. The skeleton was exam-
ined by Professor Boule. In the following year a
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
third skeleton was discovered by M. Pergrony in
the an old rock shelter
site of at Ferrassie, also in
the valley of the Dordogne.

SOIL ANC

Rubble.

AURIGNAC
MIDDLE.

10

-
MOUSTERIEN
11

ACHEULEEN

PRE- ACHEULEEN

Fig. 22. Section of the strata in which the skeleton

was found at Ferrassie.

Only a preliminary description of the last-named

discovery has been published as yet by Professor
Capitan, who, however, has given a very instruc-
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tive sketch of the strata in which the skeleton was
found. The deposits, which have been gradually
and slowly formed by the wash of rain and the
weathering of the face of the cliff, extend to a
depth of 14-3 feet. The top stratum of soil and
rubble, 4 feet in depth, contains no trace of human
habitation ; we may suppose it to have been
formed after primitive man had abandoned rock-
shelter habitations. The second stratum, 5-6 feet
thick, contained many traces of man. From the
character of the flint and bone implements, the
engravings and the remains of animals, these
strata are inferred to have been formed during the
Aurignacien Period. Three stages in this period
are recognized. In the oldest and lowest stratum
of that period the Combe-Capelle man —
of the
—
Galley Hill race was found. In the upper or
most recent layer the Cro-Magnon race has left
its traces. The Aurignac Period covers a long
interval of time, and is usually regarded as part
of the interval between the third or penultimate,
and the fourth or last of the interglacial periods.
Below the Aurignacien are the formations of the
Mousterien Period. In the section given by
Professor Capitan (Fig. 22) the deposits of the
Mousterien Period are i| feet thick. The skeleton
of Ferrassie was found at the bottom of this laver.
Below the Mousterien were found the formations
of the Acheuleen Period. These two periods,
Mousterien and Acheuleen, are usually supposed
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
to cover the time which preceded and succeeded
the third or penultimate cold cycle. In the deeper
or olderformations of the Mousterien Period,
Hauser discovered the skeleton of the young man
at Le Moustier ; the skeletons found at La
Chapelle-aux-Saints belong apparently to the
close of the Mousterien Period. Remains found
during the exhumation show that the reindeer
was then in the south of France.
The young lad found at Le Moustier is a re-
markable example of the Neanderthal type. The
canine and wisdom teeth were in process of
eruption, and the long bones had not ceased
growing. He was probably about sixteen years
of age, but already all the characters of his race
were fully developed and well marked. The skull
was particularly massive, having the dimensions
of the Neanderthal skull and probably a some-
what greater capacity. The teeth are remarkably
large when fully grown his palate would have
;

had almost exactly the same dimensions as those

estimated for the Heidelberg man. The face was
badly broken, and although indifferently restored
we can see that it is very massive, its width and
length being about an inch greater than in modern
men. The characteristic supra-orbital ridge is
present, and also the peculiar modification of the
occiput to give attachment to the massive, bull-
like neck. His height was under five feet. The
remains of the young man are now preserved in
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 NEANDERTHAL MAN IN FRANCE
the Musem of Ethnology at Berlin. The price paid
was a fabulous one, viz. 160,000 marks.
While the skeleton of Le Moustier gives us a
glimpse of Neanderthal man in his youth, we have
a picture of him in old age at La Chapelle-aux-
Saints. The skull of the old man has a length of
208 mm., 3 or 4 mm. greater than any other
known specimen of this type. very possible
It is

that in Neanderthal men, as amonganthropoids,

the supra-orbital ridges and muscular crests kept
slowly growing all through life. Professor Boule
estimates the cranial capacity at 1625 cubic centi-
—
metres nearly 150 cubic centimetres above the
average of modern Europeans, and the stature
he calculates to have been 1600 (5 ft. 3 in.). As
in the Le Moustier individual, so in this, the facial
part of the skull was damaged but even if
;

damaged, the parts are welcome, for we knew very

the face of Neanderthal man until these
little of

discoveries were made. The length of the face

must have been more than an inch wider and
longer than in modern man, while the neck was
at least three-quarters of an inch more in thickness
when measured from side to side and half an inch
more when estimated from front to back. The
teeth were worn and diseased in the old man of
La Chapelle-aux-Saints ;the molar teeth were
lost during life, a condition we did not expect,
for, as a rule, the teeth of an ancient man, al-
though much worn, seldom show traces of disease.
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
Recently the teeth of Neanderthal man have
been discovered in the Island of Jersey ; they
are similar in type to those of Krapina and Heidel-
berg. The teeth were found with remains of the
woolly rhinoceros in the strata filling an old cave
on the cliff of St. Brelade's Bay. Thus we have
evidence that at a distant time, dating from almost
the beginning to almost the end of the Glacial
—
Period a period variously estimated at from
half to one and a half millions of years — Europe
was occupied from the centre of Germany in the
north to the Pyrenees in the south, from Jersey in
the west to Croatia in the east, by a type of man-
kind quite unlike modern races. As yet we have
only obtained a few glimpses of the men of this
vast period. They appear suddenly and they
seem to disappear without leaving a trace. A
fuller knowledge will show how this remarkable
race stands to modern man. In the writer's
opinion the Neanderthal type represents the stock
from which all modern races have arisen. At the
first glance the native of Central Africa has little

in common as regards build of body with the native

of Central Europe, and yet an unprejudiced survey
will show that, on the whole, the Negro and the
European have a greater similarity in structure
than either of these two has to the Neanderthal
type. The extent of the difference between black
and white indicates that the racial separation of
the modern type of man must be placed far back
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 NEANDERTHAL MAN IN FRANCE
in time. Yet the Neanderthal type seems the
parent stock, and it is probable that while Nean-

derthal man was the dominating race in Glacial

Europe, another branch of the same stock was
shaping towards the modern form outside the
bounds of that continent.
Although no remains of the Neanderthal type
have been found in a stratum which lies over or
is more recent than one containing a representa-

tive of a modern race, yet there is evidence to sup-

port the theory that the Galley Hill type was
contemporary with the Neanderthal type in
Europe. No intermediate forms have yet been
discovered in Europe or elsewhere. The transition
from one type to the other appears to have taken
place suddenly. In the course of a few thousand
years Australia may offer a similar problem to the
anthropologist. Research in that country would
show sudden transition from
at a distant date a
one type of mankind to another. The sudden
change we, who see the change taking place, know
to be due to a replacement, not a transformation,
of race. Glacial Europe was evidently the scene
of a change of type
similar but in this case
;

the change was greater than that now seen in

Australia, for a very ancient species of man was
replaced by what here named the modern type.
is

In recent yearswe have come to know that the

growth of the body is regulated, and its characters
—
determined by internal secretions especially by
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
the substances secreted from the thyroid and
pituitary glands. The peculiar characters of the
Neanderthal type appear to be under the particu-
lar domination of the small pituitary gland at
the base of the brain. When this gland becomes
enlarged, as it occasionally does in the disease
known as acromegaly, the Neanderthal characters
are developed in the subjects of the disease in an
exaggerated and bizarre form. The functions of
the pituitary seem to afford a key to Neanderthal
characteristics. There are grounds for believing
that, as our knowledge of the body increases, it
may be possible to reproduce in modern man by ex-
perimental methods all the various features of head
and body which characterize the Neanderthal type.

—
References. Prof. Fraipont et M. Lohest " Le :

Race humaine de Neanderthal en Belgique."

Archives de Biologic, 1887, T. y, p. 587.
Prof. H. Klaatsch and Heir O. Hauser :

" Homo Mousteriensis Hauseri." Archiv. fur

Anthropologic, 1909, Bd. 4, p. 287.
Prof. Marcellin Boule " L'homme fossile
:

de la Chapelle-aux-Saints." L' anthropologic,

1908, T. 19, p. 519.
Prof. Capitan :
" Les nouveaux homines

fossiles de l'epoque du Moustier." Revue

Scicntifique, 1910, T. 48, p. 193.
Prof. A. Keith " Teeth of
: Neanderthal
Man in Jersey." Nature, 191 1, p. 414.
 CHAPTER XIII

GIBRALTAR MAN

NO specimen of the Neanderthal type has a

more remarkable history than the Gibraltar
cranium. In 1910 Colonel E. R. Reynon, then in
command of the Royal Engineers, Gibraltar, dis-
covered from the minute book of the long-defunct
" Gibraltar Scientific Society " that this cranium

was brought to light in 1848 and presented to the

Museum of the Society by the Secretary, Lieu-
tenant Flint. The Gibraltar cranium was thus
the first discovery of the Neanderthal type of man,
the famous specimen having been found nine
years later, in 1857. The Gibraltar find is of the
—
utmost value for two reasons (1) the face and
base of the cranium are better preserved than in
any other specimen yet discovered ; (2) because,

at least in the opinion of the writer, it is of a more

primitive type than any yet described, and ap-
pears to bridge the gulf between the ancient man
of Java (Pithecanthropus erectus) and the typical
Neanderthal man. It seems to be Early Nean-
derthal or Pre-Neanderthal.
In 1862 the cranium came to England with an
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
extensive collection of the remains of animals
which had been excavated in the Genista cave at
Gibraltar by Captain Brome, Superintendent of
the Gaol. Captain Brome's patriotism on behalf
of Science led to his being ignominously and most
unjustly dismissed the service because his pioneer
discoveries had been made by the aid of prisoners
under his charge. The collection which reached
England under those inauspicious circumstances
was examined and described by two remarkably
skilled men —
Mr. George Busk and Dr. Hugh
Falconer. Both were struck with the human
cranium. Falconer, observing that certain features
distinguished it from the modern type of cranium,

proposed to recognize it as a type of a new variety

of mankind, and to name the variety Homo Calpi-
cits — from Calfe, the old name of Gibraltar. \n
1868 Busk presented the cranium to the Museum
of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, where
it is now preserved. It has received the attention
of anthropologists from the days of Huxley,
Broca, Ouatrefages and Hamy to more recent
days, when it has been studied by Macnamara,
Klaatsch, Schwalbe, Sollas, and Sera. The point
on which all are now agreed is that the Homo
Calpicus belongs to the Neanderthal type of
Pleistocene man.
All the evidence relating to the antiquity of
this specimen is indirect. The only certain point
is that it was quarried out of the terrace under
 GIBRALTAR MAN
the north face of the rock, at a site then known
as Forbes Quarry. The nature of the terrace we
know ; the accompanying section from a recent
paper by Mr. H. D. Acland will give a good idea

Hy. 23. Section of a talus or terrace at Gibraltar of similar

formation to the one in which the famous skull was found.
(H. D. Acland.)

of the terrace or talus formations at Gibraltar.

The terrace formed by weathering and erosion
is

of the face of the limestone cliff the chips, which

;

fall from the cliff, are welded together to form a

conglomerate at the base. Mixed with the lime-

stone chips is an addition of fine wind-blown sand
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
from the neighbouring shore. A petrified mass
of sandstone breccia still fills the nasal cavities of
the Gibraltar cranium. Its rock-like consistence
defies removal.The part of the terrace in which
the cranium was found was probably at a former
period the floor of a cave. Part of a cave still
exists behind the site of the discovery. The floor
of this cave was explored by Dr. W. H. L. Duck-
worth, of Cambridge, in ign he found ten
;

successive layers of stalagmite, and a layer of

breccia or conglomerate 4! feet thick on the floor.
No fossilremains were discovered by him. The
terrace formation is of the same nature as the cave

strata of the Dordogne, but it is impossible at the

present time to find the exact geological period.
It is certainly a Pleistocene formation, and very
probably older than the cave strata in the Dor-
dogne assigned to the Mousterien Period. Pro-
fessors A. C. Ramsay and James Geikie, who
investigated the geology of Gibraltar in 1877,
saw evidence of a cold period in these terrace
formations of breccia. The fauna found in the
Genista cave by Captain Brome and described by
Busk and Falconer, is very similar to that found
with the Heidelberg jaw in the sands of Mauer.
Rhinoceros Etruscus was present as at Mauer, and
the fauna indicates an early part of the Pleistocene
Period. In a cave at Gibraltar Dr. Duckworth
found stone implements of the type used in France
during the Mousterien Age.
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 GIBRALTAR MAN
The geological evidence permits one to sav that
the conditions of life at Gibraltar at the beginning
of the Pleistocene Period were such as make it
probable that man may have lived there then.
The real evidence of antiquity must be sought for
in the skull itself. The cranial capacity is under
i ioo cubic centimetres —200 to 300 less than in the
examples of Neanderthal man found elsewhere with
the possible exception of one Krapina specimen.
Although the size of the brain has not shown
a progressive increase with evolution, still we
must regard a small brain cavity in a primitive
type of skull as an indication of antiquity. The
total length of the skull is 192 mm., the brain
making up 164 mm. of this amount. In the
Neanderthal skull the total length was 203 mm.,
with a brain length of 175. The proportion of
the thickness of bone is therefore greater than in
the Neanderthal skull. The width of the Gibraltar
brain is 130 mm., the skull 142. The width or
cephalic index of the skull is thus 74 per cent of
the length. There is a slight indication of the
brachycephalic character as seen in Krapina crania.
It is, however, in the cerebral height that the
primitive nature of this skull is evident. The height,
according to the writer's method of measurement,
is only 88 mm., 10 to 15 mm. less than in the other

Neanderthal crania, with the possible exception

of some of the Krapina fragments.
The writer was at first inclined to explain the
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
diminutive ofthe Gibraltar cranium on the
_sizg_

supposition haljlwas tha t of a woman a sugges-

t ,

tion first made by Professor Soil as but further ,

investigation of the characters of the jaw, and

GIBRALTAR |
J
MODERN ENGLISH

Fig. 24. Profile of the Gibraltar cranium (shaded) compared

with modern English skull (outline). (One-third natural size.)

teeth, and face, and especially a critical survey of

the sexual d ifferences. ^seen in_Jj]jR_Jj^ ments ,o f
the Krapina cra nia, co mpelled him to abandon th,e
s exual explanat ion and adop t tha t of anti cmity.
The characters of the teeth are remarkably
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 GIBRALTAR MAN
primitive. The upper molars, which are worn
almost to the roots and broken, have characteristic
roots. They are widely spread and united to-
gether almost to their tips. Their crowns, as in the
Heidelberg mandible, are not large. The first upper
molar when measured from front to back along
the line of the alveolus, is n
5 mm., the second
-

10 "5 mm., and the last is as large as the first-

very probably larger, for we can only judge of its
size from the space occupied by the roots. The
necks of the teeth were as large or larger than
the crowns. The length of the palate is only
54 mm., certainly shorter than the Heidelberg
palate its width is 70 mm., the same measure-
;

ment as was estimated for the Heidelberg palate.

The dimensions of the face are moderate in
amount, the extreme width from one zygomatic
arch to the other was probably 134 mm.; the
length of the face from the root of the nose to the
gum between the upper incisors, 81 mm. In the
La Chapelle skull these dimensions are 10 mm.
(| in.) greater. The characters of the face of the
Gibraltar skull are primitive a number of its
;

features recallcorresponding parts of the

the
gorilla. The bridge of the nose in its length and
breadth and the manner in which the root bends
upwards into the supra-orbital ridge, are more
like the gorilla form than is the case in any
other cranium of the Neanderthal type. The air
sinuses in the upper jaw are inflated to almost the
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
same extent as in the gorilla. The orbits are
capacious, as is the case in all crania of the Nean-
derthal type and also in the gorilla, but in the
form of palate there is no resemblance to the great

GIBRALTAR

Fig. 25. Face view of the Gibraltar skull.

(One-third natural size.)

anthropoid. The projecting muzzle of the gorilla

is replaced by the backwardly compressed and
wide upper jaw of the Neanderthal type. One
feature of the face is rather surprising. The aper-
ture of the nose is bounded by a sharp margin
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 GIBRALTAR MAN
very similar to the form seen in modern man. The
prenasal grooves, seen in the floor of the nasal
aperture of anthropoids, of Negroid races, and of
the other known specimens of Neanderthal man,
are absent. Yet the aperture isextremely wide,

Fig. 26. Profile of Gibraltar skull. (One-third natural size.

namely, 34 mm. In the Gibraltar skull one seems

to have a foreshadowing of the prominent Euro-
pean nose. Were the air sinuses which puff out
the regions of the nose and cheek to collapse to
modern dimensions, the narrow and prominent
European nose would be produced. The type of
k 129
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
nose seen in the Gibraltar cranium could hardly
be the forerunner of the Negro type. Further
evidence of the primitive nature of the Gibraltar
skull is seen in its flat cranial base, which has been
studied closely by Dr. Sera. Another primitive
feature is the diminutive size of the squama of
the temporal bone it takes but a small part in
;

forming the cranial cavity. On the other hand, the

great wing of the sphenoid is massive —
a feature
which Professor Klaatsch observed to occur in all
crania of the Neanderthal type.
Taking all the evidence into account the —
anatomical features of the skull, the Pleistocene
fauna of Gibraltar, and the formation of the terrace
in which the cranium was discovered we may —
regard the human race known to us only by this
single cranium, as a very early form of Pleistocene
man. The race was certainly of the Neanderthal
type, but appears to be an earlier and more primi-
tive form than the ty] ical specimens discovered in
Belgium and France.

Reference. — Prof. W. G. Sollas : "On the

Cranial and Facial Features of the Nean-
derthal Race " Philosophical Transactions,
1908, Vol. 199 b, p. 281
 CHAPTER XIV
FOSSIL MAN OF JAVA -PITHECANTHROPUS
ERECTUS

THE Gibraltar skull serves in some degree to

bridge the gulf between the Neanderthal
type of Europe and the remarkable type of man
discovered in Java by Eugene Dubois, now Pro-
fessor of Geology in the University of Amsterdam.
Professor Dubois was trained under that veteran
Dutch zoologist, Professor Max Weber, and went
out to Java in 1889 as a military surgeon. At
the request of the Governor-General of Java
he explored the fossil bed of Trinil, a native
hamlet in the Province of Madiun, near the centre
of Java. That province is known, on account of

its tropical heat, as the " Hell " of Java. Through

Madiun, bending northwards to the sea, meanders
the Solo or Bengawan, a stream which has cut
its banks to a depth of 35 to 40 feet, thus exposing

the strata of the plain. The upper 35 feet are

composed of the consolidated debris of lava
washed from the hills and deposited on the plain
by the Bengawan during the Pleistocene Period.
Under the thick strata of volcanic debris is a laver
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN

VEGETABLE
SOIL

STRATIFIED
RIVER DEPOSIT

\._-HlGH WATtll

WW WATER
FOSSILIFEROUS STRATUM
50-

CLAY
G<^

MARINE BRECCIA

Fig. 27. Section of the bank of the Bengawan, showing the

position of the fossil-bearing stratum in which the remains of
the fossil man were found.
 FOSSIL MAN OF JAVA
which may be regarded as a sepulchre for a past
fauna of the island. During 1891 and 1892 Pro-
fessor Dubois discovered in this deep fossiliferous
stratum the remains of twenty-seven species of
mammals, belonging to twenty genera. Amongst
these fossil remains of a long-past fauna were four
—
specimens a skull cap, a thigh bone, and two
teeth— which he assigned to an extinct animal.
To this extinct form he gave the name of Pithe-
canthropus cretins. He regarded it as a link which
bridged the gulf between man and anthropoids.
In a zoological sense the name is justified, but so
many are the human characters and so strong
is the suggestion that in this discovery of Dubois

we have a representation of an actual stage in the

evolution of man, that it seems more expedient
to simply give the name of Homo javenensis, or
the fossil man of Java.
It is highly desirable to fix the date of the Java
type of man and see how he stands as regards the
earliest known form of the Neanderthal type.
The Heidelberg man, be remembered, is
it will
assigned to an early part of the Pleistocene Period ;

Dubois regarded the Trinil fossil fauna as of older

date, belonging to the end of the previous or
Pliocene Period. To fix with greater certainty
the date of the Trinil fauna, Frau Lenore Selenka,
the widow of Professor Emil Selenka, who did so
much to extend our knowledge of the Higher
Primates, led an expedition to Java in 1907-8.
 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
In the opinions of the experts who examined the
fossilsexcavated by the expedition, the Trinil
fauna, including Pithecanthropus, is Pleistocene
of the same date or perhaps even later than the
Heidelberg man. The difficulties of fixing the
relative dates of a fauna of a tropical country
such as Java with that of a temperate country,
which, like Central Europe, has been subjected to
many changes in climate, in the scale of geological
time, are very great. It is true that the strata
which succeeded the fossil-bearing layer of Trinil
shows a flora of a temperate climate, but a tem-
perate climate in volcanic Java is more likely
due to a great elevation of the island than to such
a change of climate as Pleistocene Europe was
subjected to. In the writer's opinion Dubois was
right the Trinil fauna, judging from the changes
;

in the mammalian forms, is as old as the Pliocene

of Europe, and is earlier than the sands of Mauer.
Whatever the exact date may be, whether late
Pliocene or early Pleistocene, the characters of
the femur leave no doubt, minor
in spite of
peculiar features, that the fossil man
Java was of
as completely adapted for erect posture and erect
progression as the man of to-day. There are no
features in it which suggest the slouching gait of
Neanderthal man. Itfis part of a slim animal,
human in shape and in movement, who stood, on
the present method of reckoning stature, about
5 ft. 6 in. high. The length of the femur is 455 mm.;
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 FOSSIL MAN OF JAVA
itshows a bony growth, pathological in nature, into
the muscles of the thigh. The erect posture, as
one had good reason to suspect, even before
Dubois had made his important discovery, was
evolved before the end of the Pliocene Period.

PITHECANTHROPUS £3
GIBRALTAR

Fig. 28. The profile of the calvaria of the fossil man of Java
(shaded) compared with the Gibraltar cranium (outline). (One-
third natural size.)

The modern human posture was attained long

before the human brain rached its modern size^
The brain is the characteristic organ of
man. Dubois estimated that of the fossil man
of Java at 855 cc, but it is highly probable
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
that the estimate is somewhat under the truth.
In the Gibraltar skull the capacity is about
1080 cc, an amount which exceeds some
modern aborigines of Australia. On the other
hand, in crania of the Neanderthal type the
capacity equals or exceeds the modern average
of 1475 to 1500 cc. The capacity of the Java skull
is intermediate to that of the gorilla the male —
anthropoid of that genus may be as much as
—
600 cc. and the capacity of the Gibraltar skull
(1080 cc). If we accept the Java specimen as

representative of late Pliocene man, then we must

admit that the human brain was then in its more
primitive stages of development. When one bears
in mind the remarkable discoveries by Mr. J.
Reid Moir of worked flints, the products of human
hands and human brains, in the undisturbed crag-
formations of the east of England formations —
which mark the transition of the Pliocene to the
Pleistocene Periods, and the remarkable size of
the brain of Neanderthal man, one is compelled
to believe that the human brain had attained a
greater size than that of the Java man at the
end of the Pliocene Period. Either he is of older
date than we now think, or he was, as we may see
in the world to-day, the surviving remnant of an
old form amongst progressive human cousins.
Even if the primitive Java man had persisted to
a period when the ancestral race of modern man
had passed far beyond him, that does not in any
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 FOSSIL MAN OF JAVA
way invalidate his claim to represent a stage in
human evolution.
Frau Selenka's expedition discovered three
pieces of evidence in favour of man, as we now
know him, having been a contemporary of the
Java man. These are (i) in the fossiliferous layer
at Trinil, charcoal and signs of fire were found.
The fire may have been kindled by man or it may —
have been, as it sometimes is now in Java, of
volcanic origin. (2) Certain of the fossil bones were
splintered. They may have been splintered by
man, by crushing in the bed of the river, by car-
nivorous animals or by heat. (3) A fossil tooth was
found in the bed of a neighbouring stream, which
Dr. Walkoff rightly regards as human in charac-
ter. It is a third lower molar, 13 mm. in length
and 11 mm. in breadth. Dr. Walkoff is probably
right in regarding it as the earliest trace of man's
body yet discovered, but in the writer's opinion
every feature of that tooth is just what is to be
expected in the third lower molar of the fossil
man of Java. Dr. Walkoff, however, regards it
as evidence of the contemporary existence of a
modern type of man. It will thus be seen that the
existence of the modern type of man as a con-
temporary of the Pliocene man of Java is founded
on very slender evidence. The facts are most
easily explained by supposing that the charcoal
and the splinters are not of human origin, and that
the tooth is that of Pithecanthropus.
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
An analysis of the dimensions and form of the
Trinil skull cap reveals all the characters of the
Neanderthal type in a nascent or rudimentary
condition. It represents a stage in the evolution
of the human head considerably below the earliest
stages yet found in Europe. The maximum length
of the skull in Java man was certainly 185 mm.,
equal to the same diameter of a modern man, but
the component parts of the length are very dif-
ferent. In the Java man the brain made up
155 mm. and the frontal and occipital walls of the
skull the remainder, namely, 30 mm., which is
equal to i6'2 per cent of the total length. In a
modern European, with the same length of head,
the thickness of the skull wall accounts for only
8 per cent of the total length in the Gibraltar and
;

Neanderthal skulls the proportion of bone is 14 per

cent ; in the gorilla it is 20 per cent. In the evolu-
tion of man
the length factor due to the brain
gradually increases, while that due to thickness of
skull wall gradually decreases. As regards width
of skull the Trinil man also falls within human
dimensions the greatest width was certainly
;

135 mm., with a brain width of 7 mm. less. The

width index as regards the length of skull is 72*5
per cent as regards the brain, its width is 82*6
;

per cent of its length. As in anthropoids, the

roundness of the brain is masked by a long cranial
case. The Java man shows in a marked degree
the flattening of the brain and skull from above
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downwards —a feature of the anthropoid and also
of the Gibraltar man. The cerebral height of the
Java skull,on the author's method of reckoning,
is 79 mm., 13 mm. more than in the male gorilla,

9 mm. less than in the Gibraltar cranium, and

20 mm. less than is common in modern man
and in typical specimens of Neanderthal man.
In the particular method by which the skull was
—
hafted to the neck causing the high position
of the inion —
the Java man shows the same
features as the Neanderthal type of Europe, only
these features are even more exaggerated. Thus
the Java man represents in his skull a pre-Nean-
—
derthal condition just such a one as we should
expect in Pliocene man.
Professor Dubois' discovery also throws a clear
light on the evolution of the human mechanism of
mastication. From the markings and form of the
skull and from the characters of the two teeth
—
found a last upper molar and a second lower
—
premolar there can be no doubt the method of
mastication and form of palate and dentition were
similar to those seen in the Neanderthal type of
man. The retrogression of the canine teeth and
the evolution of the human mechanism of dentition
have to be sought for at an earlier stage of human
evolution than that represented by Homo javenen-
sis. The size of the palate and form of the face
were probably not unlike the condition preserved
for us in the Gibraltar cranium.

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From a survey of this extinct form of man we
can draw the important inference that our teetli
and our posture were evolved at a stage when our
brain, as regards volume and shape, had passed
through only the earlier stages of the development
which has lifted it above the anthropoid condition.
Although the geological evidence points to a late
Pliocene or early Pleistocene Period for Homo
javenensis,his physical characters are best ex-
plained by assigning him to an older period one —
nearly at the beginning of the Pliocene Period.

References. — Prof. Eugene

Dubois :
" Pithe-

canthropus Erectus, eine menschen." Ueber-

gangsjorm aits Java. Batavia, 1894.
Prof. G. Schwalbe " Studien ueber Pithe-
:

canthropus Erectus." Zeiischrijt fur Morph.

und Anihrop., 1899, Bd. 1, pp. 16-240.

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 CHAPTER XV
ANCIENT TYPES OF AMERICA

HAVING traced the various types of man that

have appeared in the Old World, from the
Neolithic woman Essex to the very ancient
of
fossil man of Java, I propose to turn to the New
World and survey briefly the most ancient kinds
of man which have been discovered there. So far
as concerns North America the task is an easy one,
for onlv the other day the American Bureau of
Ethnology issued a very clear account, written
In' Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the remains of ancient

man which have been found there. There is no

final agreement amongst American geologists, any
more than amongst their European colleagues, as
to the exact number of temperate intervals which
broke up the long glacial epoch into periods in
;

America it is usual to recognize five such intervals,

the present temperate period being the sixth. We
have just seen that in the Old World remains of
man have been found from about the beginning
of the first Interglacial Period —assigning, in our
calculations, the first of the cold periods to the
end of the Pliocene Period. No remains of the
bod\* of man have yet been found in North America
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
in circumstances which permit us to assume that
they belong to an earlier point than a late date in
the present temperate period. Mankind appears
to have attained its modern form long before
America was first inhabited. Of the fourteen dis-
coveries recorded by Dr. Hrdlicka, probably the
" Nebraska loess men " have the greatest claim to

antiquity. Parts of about twelve human skeletons

were found. The first find at Nebraska was made
in 1894 ; but it was not until Mr. G. F. Gilder
undertook a systematic excavation and found
human bones at a depth of 7 feet in an apparently
undisturbed and naturally formed stratum that
attention was drawn to the importance of the
Nebraska find. The scene of the discovery was
Long's Hill, a ridge-like elevation some six hun-
dred yards in extent, composed of a fine loam
mixed with lime, a formation made in late Pleisto-
cene times by wind and rain. On the top of the
hill was an old burial mound in which the upper

human remains were found the deeper remains

;

were unearthed beneath the mound in loess which

had been apparently deposited naturally over the
remains. In Dr. Hrdlicka's opinion the remains
were those of a people having the same features as
are still to be found amongst Indian tribes. As
regards time it is possible that the " Nebraska
loess man " may have been a contemporary of the
Tilbury man in England, but his date is probably
much later.

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Another find may be mentioned. In 1902
Mr. M. Cannon, a farmer near Lansing, Kansas,
dug a tunnel into a terrace at the base of the
Missouri River bluffs. He was surprised to find,
at a depth of 20 feet below the surface, the skeleton
of a man, and a part of the lower jaw of an infant.
The terrace, however, is apparently of compara-
tively recent formation, having been probably
laid down by the stream issuing from the side
valley. The age is probably not greater than that
assigned to the Nebraska remains. Perhaps the
most famous of the remains of prehistoric man
found in America is the Calaveras skull. This was
discovered by a gold miner, near Altaville, Cali-
fornia, in 1866. The bed of gravel in which this
skull is said to have been found lies 130 feet
beneath the surface, and in the opinion of those
fit to judge, was formed at a period of the earth's

history which antedates the appearance of the

fossil man of Java by a long interval of time. The
Calaveras skull is of the modern human type,
characterized by the very prominent cheek bones
usually found in the Mongolian races. The dis-
covery of a modern aeroplane in a church crypt
which had been bricked up since the days of
Queen Elizabeth would form a parallel instance to
finding a modern human skull in a Miocene forma-
tion. To those who have studied the evolution
of man, the one discovery is as credible as the
other. Dr. Hrdlicka found the same type of skull

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
in a similar state of fossilization in the limestone
caves of Calaveras county. In some manner one
of these had got mixed with the deep gold-bearing
bed of gravel.
Dr. Hrdlicka formed the opinion that the skele-
ton discovered at Lansing " is practically identical
with the typical male skeleton of a large majority
of the present Indians of the Middle and Eastern
States." As regards the man of the " Arkansas
loess," he also is of the Indian type, but there are
certain peculiar features, namely, a low forehead
which slopes backwards to a high crown. The top,
or crown of the head, reaches its maximum eleva-
tion towards the posterior part of the head.
It is a remarkable fact that the oldest type of
man vet discovered in South America is the same
as the man of the Arkansas loess. The discovery
was made when excavations were being carried
out to form the docks at Buenos Aires, on the
south bank of the La Plata. When the workmen
had reached a depth of 35 feet below the present
bed of the river and over 100 feet below the level
of the neighbouring plain, they found part of a
skull, including the forehead and part of the
crown. In ProfessorSchwalbe's opinion, with
which the writer is complete agreement, the
in
skull is, both as regards its dimensions and its
character, that of a modern type of man the —
type just mentioned in the Arkansas loess. In
the opinion of that enthusiastic pioneer of Palaeon-

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 ANCIENT TYPES OF AMERICA
tology in South America, Professor Ameghino, the
skull thus found is that of an ancestral form of

Fig. 29. A tracing of the profile of the La Tigra cranium

(outline) compared with the profile of the skull of the Arkansas
luess man (shaded). (One-thiid natural size.)

man to which he gave the name Diprothomo

platensis. The same authority assigns an extra-
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
ordinary antiquity to the La Plata man, placing
him near the beginning of the Pliocene Period,
a million or two years old. Our attempt to
give the modern type of man an antiquity of
200,000 or 300,000 years is modest when com-
pared to Professor Ameghino's estimate.
In forming an opinion as regards the age in
which the 35-foot stratum of the La Plata bed
was formed, one must keep in mind the many
oscillations in the level of the land which occur
in the South American continent, and also the
volume of silt, and consequent land formation,
brought down by such a river as the La Plata.
We have every reason to suppose that land is of
rapid formation in the estuary of the La Plata.
If 30,000 years is assigned to the stratum in
which the Tilbury man was found, half that
amount would be a liberal estimate for the
layer in which the La Plata man was discovered,
for the Thames is small and its valley steadfast,
compared with the great rivers of South America.
It is true that Professor Ameghino found extinct
forms of South American animals in strata super-
ficial to the one in which the remains of man

occurred, but thereis every reason to believe that

such forms survived well into the present period.

A human first or atlas on which the
vertebra, the
skull has also been discovered at Monte
rests,
Hermosa within the La Plata watershed, in a
stratum which Professor Ameghino regards as
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF AMERICA
even older than Pliocene ; but this bone, like

the crania deposited in the estuary of the river,

is form met with in modern man.
of the
The found during the excavations for the
skull
docks is so fragmentary that its complete form
cannot be determined with certainty but fortu-
;

nately, in a formation which Professor Ameghino

regards as also Pliocene, yet more recent than the
35-foot layer at the docks, a complete skull (the
La Tigra cranium. Fig. 29) was found. It belongs
to the race which Professor Ameghino has named
Homo Pampceus. How closely this skull resembles
that of the man of the Arkansas loess will be
seen at once in the accompanying figure where
the outline of Homo Pampaeus is traced on Dr.
Hrdlicka's accurate drawing of the skull of Arkan-
sas man. Not only are the skulls almost of the
same size and shape, but they are both cast in a
mould so similar that we cannot doubt we are
dealing with individuals of the same race although
found more than 4000 miles apart. Both are of
an Indian type, and have reached a point of
phvsical development which is seen in the Neo-
lithic races of Europe. The teeth, the jaws, and
the shape of the long bones are similar in the types
of the East and West.
The date at which man appeared on the Ameri-
can continent is a puzzling problem. The very
oldest type yet known is very modern. Yet we
know that for thousands of years before he
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 ANCIENT TYPES OF MAN
appears to have reached America he was already
present and widely distributed in the Old
World. The late date of his appearance in
America is not easy of explanation, nor is the
earliest type known —
the La Plata or Arkansas
—
type easily placed in the scale of Old World races.
There are peculiar features which recall the Mongol
to some degree and others which resemble those
of the fairer skinned inhabitants of the Pacific.
The cradle and affinities of the American Indians
have still to be discovered.

—
References. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka " Skeletal :

Remains of Early Man in North America."

Bureau of Americ n Anthropc logy. Washing-
ton, 1907.
Prof. G. Schwalbe " Studien zur Mor-
:

phologic des Slid Amerikanischen Primaten

Formen." Zcitsclirijt fur Morp/i. unci An-
tlirop., 1910, Bd. 13, p. 209.

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 INDEX
Acheuleen Period, 115 Diprothomo platensis, 145
Acromegaly and Neanderthal Dordogne, 64, 66
type, 120 Stratification of terraces
Ameghino, Professor, et seq., 5^of,

145 Dubois, Professor Eugene, 131

America, ancient types ol Man Duckworth, Dr. W. H. L., 124
in 141 Dupont, M Ed., 75
Aurignacien Period, 53, 69,
96, 115 Elliott, Mr. Robert, 23
Engis cave, 56
Pengawan river, section of Engis skull, 56, 109
bank 132
of, Essex Woman, 1, 7, 8
Boule, Professor, 113. 117 Teeth of, 7
Briinn, 46 Bones of, 6, 9
Brlinn crania, No. II, 51
Briinn Man, 47
Falconer, Dr. Hugh. 122
Art of, 47, 48
Ferrassie skeleton, 114
Teeth of, 50
Forbes Quarry, 123
Briix skull. 57
Fraipont, Professor, 1 1
Busk, Mr. George, 122
Furfooz race, 75> 7^
Calaveras skull, 143
Capitan, Professor, 114 Galley Hill, 28
Combe-Capelle, 5 1 Galley Hill Man, 28, 103. 104,
Combe-Capelle Man. 53 105
Corner, Mr. Frank, 31 Bones of, 32, ^^
Cin-Magnon race, 26, 64, 71 Brain of, 34
Art and weapons of, 69 Teeth of, 37, 40, 41
Bones of, 72 Galley Hill race, 46, 47. 48,
Civilization of, 69 49, 5o, 54, 5°, 57, 5 s 6 °> -

61, 67, 69, 119

Dartford cranium, 66, 67 Galley Hill skull, No. II, 41.
Dartford Man, 22 42

149
 INDEX
Gibraltar skull, 99, 121 etseq. La Chapelle-aux-Saints, 113
Antiquity of, 122, 125 Skeleton, 1 13, 117
Characters of face of, 127 La Madeleine, 69
Importance of, 121 La Naulette, 109
Teeth of, 126, 127 La Plata, ancient remains of,
Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Pro- 144
fessor Karl, 94 La Tit;ra cranium, 145
Grenelle, 75 Langwith cave, 20
Grimaldi cave, 59 Lansing remains, 143
Grimaldi skeletons, 59 Le Moustier, 1
13
Grotte des Infants, 59 Skeleton, 113, 1 16
Lohest, M., in
Hamy, 75
Hauser, Heir O., 51, 113
Magdelenien Period, 69
Hayes, Mr. Matthew, 41
Makowsky, Professor, 48
Heidelberg Man, 78, 70 etseq.
Mandible, modifications or,
Teeth of, 84, 86, 87
for speech, 83
Heidelberg skull, reconstruc-
Mastication, change in, 8
tion of, 89, 90, 91, 92
Mauer, fauna of sands of, Si
Hinton, Martin A. C., 20
Sands of, 79
Homo pampseus, 147 Stratification of sands
Hrdlicka, Ales, 141, 148
of, 81
Huxley, Professor, io, 20, 102,
Mentone, caves near, 59, 71
105
Mousterien Period, 96, 115,
116
Inion, position of, 105
Mull ins, Rev. E. II., 20

Java, antiquity >f fossil re-

mains of, 134 Neanderthal, 101
fossil man of. SVc Pithe-
Neanderthal Man, 101 et seq.
canthropus Bones of, 106, 107
fossil remains of, 133 Teeth of, 118
Neanderthal race, 78, 79,
Klaatsch, Professor, 49, 54, 101, 118, 119, 122
111, 113, 130 Brain of, 93, 105
Krapina, 94 Nebraska loess Man, 142
Krapina Men, 94 et seq. Negroid type, 60, 61, 62
Implements of, 95, 96 Newton, Mr. E. T, 31
Teeth of, 98 Newton, Mr. W. M., 24, 25
Krapina race, women and
children of, 98-
Krapinica, 94, 95 Owen, Sir Richard, 13

150
 INDEX
Palate and jaws, changes in, Sollas. Profes-or, 126
88 Solutre, 75
Parsons, Mr. F. G., 6, 17, Solutreen Period, 53, 69
35> 37 Spy, no
Pithecanthropus, 121, 131, 133 Spy men, 1 10, 1 1

et sit/. Civilization and fauna of,

Capacity of skull of, 136 1 1

Teeth of, 139 Supra-orbital ridge, 92, 104

Quatrefages, Professor. 75 Tasmanians, teeth of, 40

Teeth, retrogression of, 40,
River-bed type, 20, 21. 24, 41, 85
37, 46, 75
Thames-bed, Stratification of,

Round-headed type, 74, 75 IO, 1 1, 12, 13, 22

Thames Valley, fauna of, 26,
St. Brelade's Bay, Teeth dis- 3°, 44
covered at, 118 Terraces of, 23, 24, 26,
Schaafhausen, Dr., 101 28, 29, 30
Schmerling, Professor, 56 Tilbury Man, 10 et seq.
Schoetensack, Professor Otto, Age of, 12

80 Teeth of, 19
Schwalbe, Professor, 57, 78, Trinil, 131
102, 144. 148
Remains in S. America, Verneau, Dr., 60
144, 148 Vezere. 51, 64
Schweizersbild, remains found
at, 21 Walton-on-Naze, 1
Schwertz, Dr. F., 21 Warren. Mr. Hazzeldine, 2, 3

Sera, Dr., 130 Wilde, Jonathan, 15, 16, 17,

Sikhs. 71

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