General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . ill farther backto a primitive Primate (Notharctus) ofthe Eocene, and also postulates Dryopith-ecus of the Mio-Pliocene as possessingthe requirements for an approximatestructural ancestor for both apes andmen. Ancient Races of Mankind. Beginningwith a skull-cast of Trinil, or Java ape-man. skeletal remains or casts representPiltdown Man, Heidelberg Man, Nean-derthal Man, and Cro-Magnon Man. Anexcellent series of sculptured restorationsof these types, four of which are illustrat-ed below, have been made by Dr. J.
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . ill farther backto a primitive Primate (Notharctus) ofthe Eocene, and also postulates Dryopith-ecus of the Mio-Pliocene as possessingthe requirements for an approximatestructural ancestor for both apes andmen. Ancient Races of Mankind. Beginningwith a skull-cast of Trinil, or Java ape-man. skeletal remains or casts representPiltdown Man, Heidelberg Man, Nean-derthal Man, and Cro-Magnon Man. Anexcellent series of sculptured restorationsof these types, four of which are illustrat-ed below, have been made by Dr. J. , and are generally considered RESTORATIONS OF HEAD AM) SHOULDERS OF EARLY MAN. These restorations were made b\ Professor ). H. McGregoi following scientific principles and utilizing the skull-remains of the various types as a starting point. They are as follows: (1) Trinil Ape-ManPithecanthropus C) (Tills 12) Piltdown Man Eoanthropus dawsoni (3) Neanderthal Man Homo neanderthalensis (4) Cro-Magnon Man Homo sapiens cro-tnatinonensis >J>] ^Jtt- *»- *>v Iamuh. CRO-MAGNON ARTISTS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. At work in one of the limestone grottoesin France. They are engaged in painting on the rough stone walls pictures of the woolly mam-moths, which were then living in that region as embodying the most recent scientificdeductions as to the general appearanceof these primitive races of mankind, theearliest possibly bringing man back to theUpper Pliocene, more than 1,000,000years ago. Weapons and implements of rough andpolished stone and of bone are exhibitedas evidence of the gradual up-building ofhuman culture through the rough stoneand polished stone ages of mans pre-historic periods, while reproductions ofthe cave-paintings of Cro-magnon man inFrance and Spain attest the artistic abil- ity of the early stock which first representsmodern man in Europe. A series of mural paintings by CharlesR. Knight over the doorways of the Hallof the Age of Man give a vivid idea of t
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