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
In the chimpanzee we observe the very prominent bony ridges above the
eyes, like those in the Trinil and Neanderthal races of men. The
prognathous or protruding tooth rows and receding chin suggest those in
the Heidelberg, Piltdown, and Neanderthal races. When the chimpanzee is
walking (Fig. 18) the arms reach down below the level of the knees,
whereas in the higher races of man they reach only half-way down the
thighs. Thus, the fore limb, although much shorter than that of the
gibbon, is relatively longer than that of any human race, recent or
ancient. We observe also in the walking chimpanzee (Fig. 18) that the
upper part of the leg, the thigh-bone, or femur, is relatively long, while
the lower part, the shin-bone, or tibia, is relatively short. Indeed, both
in the arm and in the leg the upper bones are relatively long and the
lower bones are relatively short. These proportions, which are
inheritances of arboreal life, are in very marked contrast to those
observed in the arms and legs of the Neanderthal race of men, in which the
limbs are of the terrestrial or walking type.
[Illustration: ANCESTRAL TREE OF THE ANTHROPOID APES AND OF MAN
EXISTING GIBBON. MAN CHIMPANZEE. GORILLA. ORANG.
APES AND Asia. (_Homo sapiens_). Africa. Africa. Asia.
MAN. | Asia, Europe. | | |
| | | |
| _Crô-Magnon_ and | / /
| other races | / /
| | / /
| More primitive | / /
| species, human | / /
| and prehuman. | / /
GLACIAL OR | | | / Macaque
PLEISTOCENE | | | | of
AGE. | _Neanderthal race._ | | | Europe.
| | | | |
| _Piltdown race._ | | | |
| | | | |
| _Heidelberg race._ | | | |
| | | | |
PLIOCENE | | | | |
AGE. | _Trinil race_ | | | |
| (_Pithecanthropus_). | | | |
Primitive Ancestral anthro- | Macaques
Gibbon of poids of Asia. | of Asia
Europe | | / and
(_Pliohylobates_). | / / Europe.
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