Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . THE ENGIS SKULL. or might have contained the thoughtlessbrains of a savage. Very different from this, however, isthe skull described by Schaafhausen,which was taken from the cave of Nean-derthal, near Dusseldorf, in RhenishPrussia. The latter is so exceedingly 294 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. i in its form and structure as tosuggest, almost with the force of demon-stration, a type of life but little above. ity indicate
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . THE ENGIS SKULL. or might have contained the thoughtlessbrains of a savage. Very different from this, however, isthe skull described by Schaafhausen,which was taken from the cave of Nean-derthal, near Dusseldorf, in RhenishPrussia. The latter is so exceedingly 294 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. i in its form and structure as tosuggest, almost with the force of demon-stration, a type of life but little above. ity indicated bythe Neanderthalskull. barous, has a skull at all comparablewith the Neanderthal in its small ca-pacity, outward-slopingocciput, and great thickness Peculiar animal- 0f boneThe a c company ing cut of anauthentic cast will suf-ficiently illustrate thecharacter of the skullunder consideration. It is not needed inthis connection to enterinto details respectingthe character of theother parts of the hu-man skeletons whichhave been found in thecave dwellings of Eu-rope. It is sufficient tonote the fact that ingeneral these remainsdepart somewhat fromthe highly developed and SVinmetri- Other features c a 1 forms of the skeletonsof the cave THE NK\N1>KRTIIAL SKULL. that of the beasts of the held. Theskull isalmost as flat and thick and re-ceeding as that of a gorilla. No manof any existing race, even the most bar- Of living dwellers. types of men, and vergeoff unmistakably in someparticulars toward theforms of the lower ani-mals. The arms, forinstance, of the cavemen were lo
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