. The Open court. during life. Some of thelittle holes can be definitely identified as passages for blood-vessels, and none of them seem tobe caused by disease, i86 THE OPEN COURT. at the time when mankind had just risen into existence. The skullsof Egisheim, of Brux, and of Cannstatt all characterised by an ap-proach to the ape type, and two skeletons discovered by and Lhoest in 1897 near Spy, Belgium, belong also to arace that was not very distant from the Neanderthal man. Thecave in which the latter were found contains in the drift, flint im-plements of the crudest kind, and
. The Open court. during life. Some of thelittle holes can be definitely identified as passages for blood-vessels, and none of them seem tobe caused by disease, i86 THE OPEN COURT. at the time when mankind had just risen into existence. The skullsof Egisheim, of Brux, and of Cannstatt all characterised by an ap-proach to the ape type, and two skeletons discovered by and Lhoest in 1897 near Spy, Belgium, belong also to arace that was not very distant from the Neanderthal man. Thecave in which the latter were found contains in the drift, flint im-plements of the crudest kind, and bones of the rhinoceros, the cavebear, the cave hyena, and other remnants of the earliest stone age.^Renewed investigations of the Neanderthal skull have justi-fied the theory that it belongs to a primitive man. These new dis-coveries in connection with renewed and careful investigations ofthe skull have dispelled all doubts concerning the nature of theNeanderthal remains. We may say without fear of contradiction. Occiput of the Neanderthal Schwalbe. that the discussion has passed the critical stage, and all anthropol-ogists of reputation agree that we have here the specimen of aprimitive race whose forehead still preserves the orbital ridges oflower animals and the facial angle of which is considerably lowerthan that of the lowest negro type, being only slightly higher than 1 Prof. G. Schwalbe of the University of Strassburg in Alsace has devoted an especial mono-graph to the subject, which he has published in the Bonner Jahrbucher, No. io6, pp. 1-72, underthe title Der Neanderthalschadel. The article has also appeared in a special reprint. 2 On the right parietal bone we discover a cicatrised hole made by a pointed instrument,which looks, as says Virchow, as if it were made by a bayonet, or a sharp stone, or anyother pointed weapon, perhaps a lance, or an arrow. It was healed during the lifetime of oursubject. The occipital bone shows further a rough depression
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