. The Bible and science. Fig. 155.—Skull of old man of Cromagnon; prolile. of his first creation in the east and his migration intothese northern latitudes we cannot say, but the firstinhabitants of Britain appear to have been a savagerace, using implements of chipped flint of the rudestpossible shape. Very few, if any, bones of these men 296 UNION OF BlUTAIN WITH THE CONTINENT. have been found, but tlieir flint axes, cliij^ped in suclia manner as could only be done by the hand of man,have been found along with the bones of the cavehysena, cave lion, woolly rhinoceros, and mammoth, insuch a wa
. The Bible and science. Fig. 155.—Skull of old man of Cromagnon; prolile. of his first creation in the east and his migration intothese northern latitudes we cannot say, but the firstinhabitants of Britain appear to have been a savagerace, using implements of chipped flint of the rudestpossible shape. Very few, if any, bones of these men 296 UNION OF BlUTAIN WITH THE CONTINENT. have been found, but tlieir flint axes, cliij^ped in suclia manner as could only be done by the hand of man,have been found along with the bones of the cavehysena, cave lion, woolly rhinoceros, and mammoth, insuch a wav as to leave no doubt whatever that men .Mrfffi!i™^>--,.. Fig. 136.—Skull of old man of Cronuigiion; trout view. were living at the same time as these animals. WhenEngland 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
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