Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford . urs among the strange anthropoid figures with animal profiles, which, nevertheless, Messieurs Cartailhac and Breuil consider to represent human subjects masked or On the roof of the hall of the Altamira 1 Capitan, Breuil et Peyrony, Figures anthropomorphes ouhumaines de la Caverne des Combarelles. Congres InternationaldAnthropologic, etc., 1906, pp. 408 seqq. (See p. 411, Fig. 149.) 2 It is perhaps worth making the suggestion that these anthro-pomorphic figures with their animal snouts may in
Anthropology and the classics : six lectures delivered before the University of Oxford . urs among the strange anthropoid figures with animal profiles, which, nevertheless, Messieurs Cartailhac and Breuil consider to represent human subjects masked or On the roof of the hall of the Altamira 1 Capitan, Breuil et Peyrony, Figures anthropomorphes ouhumaines de la Caverne des Combarelles. Congres InternationaldAnthropologic, etc., 1906, pp. 408 seqq. (See p. 411, Fig. 149.) 2 It is perhaps worth making the suggestion that these anthro-pomorphic figures with their animal snouts may in some casesbe caricatures, at the hands of the Men of Cro-Magnon, of thelow negroid element of the population—the Men of Grimaldiof Dr. Verneau—with their markedly prognathous jaws andbroad nostrils. B2 20 THE EUROPEAN DIFFUSION OF lect. Cave is one of these quasi-human subjects, withthe arms raised, with open palms in front of itshead, an attitude on which its discoverers justlyremark: It is impossible to overlook the analogyof this gesture with that which throughout all . Fig. 7. antiquity and amongst nearly all peoples indicatessupplication or As a sign of adoration ithas given rise to the Egyptian hieroglyphic Ka. 1 Anthropologic, xv (1904), p. 638. I PRIMITIVE PICTOGRAPHY 21 Had the men of the Reindeer Period a fullydeveloped speech in addition to this gesture language ?That they had the elements of such, of course,stands to reason. Mere animal cries and what maybe called voice signs might have carried themfar, nor would it be possible to say at what pointthe transition from such primitive methods of oralcommunication to what might legitimately be calledarticulate speech was overpassed. But there are at least some weighty reasons fordoubting whether this higher stage was reallyattained by Palaeolithic man. In North America,which, like other parts of that continent, seems tohave received its first human settlers at a compara-tively late geological date, a consid
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