Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and ArtOsborn, Henry Fairfield
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Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Art, Primitive; Prehistoric peoples; Stone age
At first, quite erroneously, this was associated with the so-called race
of Cannstatt, but long before Schwalbe's work it was recognized by
King,(33) in 1864, as a distinct species of man (_Homo neanderthalensis_)
'the man of the Neander valley.' Not long after the discovery of the
Neanderthaloids of Spy, in Belgium, Cope,(34) in 1893, proposed the same
specific name of _Homo neanderthalensis_. In 1897 Wilser(35) suggested the
name of _Homo primigenius_, which has been widely adopted in Germany,
while among French authors the same species of man is sometimes known
to-day as _Homo mousteriensis_. This variety of names serves at least to
record the unanimous opinion that this mid-Pleistocene man belongs to a
distinct species.
Since the race was very widely distributed, we may speak of these people
as the 'Neanderthals,' while races resembling the Neanderthal species may
be characterized as 'Neanderthaloid.' The complete series of discoveries
of members of this race is now very large indeed.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE REMAINS OF THE NEANDERTHALS
(Compare Fig. 104)
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| 1. OF UNKNOWN LOWER PALÆOLITHIC TIMES |
| |
|1848. Gibraltar. Forbes Quarry. Fragmentary skull. |
|1856. Neanderthal. Düsseldorf, Germany. Skullcap and skeletal |
| fragments. |
|1859. Arcy-sur-Cure. Yonne, France. 1 lower jaw. |
|1866. La Naulette. Belgium. 1 lower jaw. |
|1888. Malarnaud. Ariège, France. 1 lower jaw. |
| ? Gourdan. Hautes-Pyrénées. 1 lower jaw. |
|1906. Ochos. Moravia. 1 lower jaw. |
| |
| 2. WITH LATE MOUSTERIAN INDUSTRY |
| |
|1887. Spy I, II. Near Dinant, Belgium. Two skulls and |
| skeletons. |
|1907. Petit-Puymoyen. Charente, France. Fragments of upper and |
| lower jaws. |
|1909. Pech de l'Azé. Dordogne, France. Skull of a child. |
|1910. La Ferrassie II. Dordogne, France. 1 skeleton (female). |
|1911. La Cotte de St. Isle of Jersey. 13 human teeth. |
| Brelade. |
|1911. La Quina II. Charente, France. Skull and fragments of |
| skeleton. |
| |
| 3.
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