. The Bible and science. land again became united to the continent, whenthe climate had become warmer, and the glaciers hadoiontracted within narrower limits, another race seemsto have crossed the broad 2:)lain covered with forest FIRST INVASION OF BRITAIN. 297 trees, where the German Ocean now rolls, and to havebrought with them nnplements, still of stone, but of ^ liiLC-lt^O. \\ I Fig. 157.—Bones of old man of Cromagnon : shin-bone; flattened tibia ; femurprofile view. much finer workmanship, to which the term neolithic has been given. 298 NEOLITHIC SKULLS. Although no skulls of the paleolit
. The Bible and science. land again became united to the continent, whenthe climate had become warmer, and the glaciers hadoiontracted within narrower limits, another race seemsto have crossed the broad 2:)lain covered with forest FIRST INVASION OF BRITAIN. 297 trees, where the German Ocean now rolls, and to havebrought with them nnplements, still of stone, but of ^ liiLC-lt^O. \\ I Fig. 157.—Bones of old man of Cromagnon : shin-bone; flattened tibia ; femurprofile view. much finer workmanship, to which the term neolithic has been given. 298 NEOLITHIC SKULLS. Although no skulls of the paleolithic age havebeen found in Great Britain, one or two skullsof that period have been discovered in are, no doubt, of a somewhat low^ type as regardstheir shape, resembling in certain respects the skulls ofsavages, such as the Australians, but still they differvery widely from those of apes, and, as Huxley re-marks, so far as capacity goes, they might serve tocontain the brain of a modern poet or savant. Some. FiG. 158.—SculiJtured boue handle representing a reindeer. skulls belonging to the neolithic period are not even ofa low type (Figs. 154, 155, ~[oQ>). The men of the neo-lithic period have left behind them evidence of nomean artistic power in their drawings and sculpturesof such animals as the cave bear and mammoth, withwhich they were contemporary, but which have nowvanished from the face of the earth (Figs. 158—100).A man, even in these days, far removed as theyare from the present, was a man, and not a monkey.
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