This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...the Esquimaux, a people that now represent the Magdelenien grade of civilization. The explorations of the caves on the shores of the Riviera near Mentone, under the auspices of the Prince of Monaco, have extended our knowledge of the Cro-Magnon type. The remains of the two negroids of Grimaldi, it will be remembered, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...the Esquimaux, a people that now represent the Magdelenien grade of civilization. The explorations of the caves on the shores of the Riviera near Mentone, under the auspices of the Prince of Monaco, have extended our knowledge 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 8J 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 3 feet above the one containing the negroids was found the skeleton of a splendid specimen of the CroMagnon 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 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 Grotte des Enfants stood about 6 ft. 3 in. in life. His long collar bones 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 this and a number of other features--the...
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