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
3. The _Brünn_ (Brüx, Předmost, and [?] Galley Hill) _race_,
long-headed, with a narrow, short face, probably entering central
Europe directly from Asia through Hungary and along the Danube;
bringing a perfected Solutrean culture; inferior in brain development
to the Crô-Magnons, in industrial contact with them but not displacing
them.
2. The _Crô-Magnon race_, long-headed with a very broad face, entering
Europe in closing Mousterian or early Aurignacian times, probably from
the south along the Mediterranean coast, and bringing in an
Aurignacian flint industry and art spirit characteristic especially of
Aurignacian and Magdalenian times; greatly reduced in number in
closing Magdalenian times, but leaving descendants in various colonies
in western Europe.
1. The _Grimaldi race_, in the transition between the Mousterian and
the Aurignacian; negroid or African in character; apparently never
established as a race of any influence in western Europe.
The presence of these five races, and perhaps of a sixth if the
'Aurignacian man' of Klaatsch proves to be distinct from the Crô-Magnon,
is firmly established by anatomy. It is most important constantly to keep
before our minds certain great principles of racial evolution: (1) that
the development of a racial type, whether long-headed or broad-headed,
narrow-faced or broad-faced, of tall or of short stature, must necessarily
be very slow; (2) that this development of the races which invaded western
Europe took place for the most part to the eastward in the vast continent
of Asia and eastern Europe; (3) that, once established through a long
process of isolation and separate evolution, these racial types are
extremely stable and persistent; their head form, their bodily
characters, and especially their psychic characters and tendencies are not
readily modified or altered; nor are they in any marked degree blended by
crossing. Crosses do not produce merely blends; they chiefly produce a
mosaic of distinct characters derived from one race or the other.
[Illustration: FIG. 135. Geographic distribution of Upper Palæolithic
human fossils in western Europe.]
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