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
Intermediate layer. Remains of the wild ass, perhaps of the steppe
type, and of the reindeer; also of the ibex, the wild horse, and
forest fauna--the wild boar.
_F._ Large fragments fallen from the cave roof. No evidence of
habitation.
_G._ Fire-hearths. Remains of the moose, roe-deer, fallow deer, stag,
wild cattle, ibex, fox, leopard, and rabbit.
_H._ Burial of a very tall skeleton of the CRÔ-MAGNON RACE (see Fig.
144, p. 297). Fire-hearths containing remains of the forest fauna,
also the alpine chamois and marmot, the cave-hyæna, and the leopard.
_I._ Burial of two skeletons of the GRIMALDI RACE (see Fig. 133, p.
267). Flints of Aurignacian type and remains of a forest fauna which
includes the deer, also of the wild horse, the alpine ibex, and the
hyæna.
_K._ Traces of charcoal and disturbed fire-hearths.
_K-L._ Remains of Merck's rhinoceros and of the hyæna. Alpine (_Ibex_)
and temperate forest fauna.
_L._ Traces of fire-hearths with Mousterian implements, chiefly of
quartzite, probably left by members of the NEANDERTHAL RACE on the
ancient floor of the grotto, following the recession of the sea.
Evidence of previous occupation by hyænas.]
The Grimaldi characters present a wide contrast to those of the
Crô-Magnon. The two known skeletons, of a woman and a youth, are of
inferior stature, not exceeding 5 feet 3 inches:
Grimaldi female estimated at 1.57 m. 5 ft. 2 in.
" youth " " 1.55 m. 5 ft. 1 in.
These measurements, however, are only slightly inferior to those of the
Crô-Magnon woman and youth, which rise to 5 feet 5 inches. There are many
negroid characters in the skull, in the structure of the hip-girdle, and
in the proportions of the limbs; there are also some characters in common
with the anthropoid apes, namely, the long forearm, the curved thigh-bone,
and the marked prognathism, or projection of the tooth row; the face is
low and broad, and extremely prognathous; the nose is platyrhine, or broad
and flat; the jaw is heavy, with large teeth and without the chin
prominence; the head form, like that of the Crô-Magnons, is
dolichocephalic and somewhat disharmonic; that is, while the head is long,
the face is short and relatively broad. Yet the cranial capacity is
relatively high, being estimated at 1,580 c.cm. Unlike the Crô-Magnons,
the Grimaldis have a relatively long forearm and a negroid type of pelvis.
The proportions of the leg are, however, somewhat similar to those of the
leg of the Crô-Magnon, the thigh-bone being short and the shin-bone long,
the index being 83.8 per cent. In addition to the long forearm, which
approaches in form that of the living anthropoid apes, there is a curved
femur, distinctly of anthropoid-ape character.
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