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 .. . endants, and his jaws andteeth had specific characteristics marking him as adifferent, or at least more primitive, type of animal;but in other respects the naturalist finds little to dis-criminate the ursus of the cavern from his modernrepresentatives—little except the size. 296 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. many, in Italy, and in Sicily, and his re-mains have been known and classifiedsince the seventeenth century. It i
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 .. . endants, and his jaws andteeth had specific characteristics marking him as adifferent, or at least more primitive, type of animal;but in other respects the naturalist finds little to dis-criminate the ursus of the cavern from his modernrepresentatives—little except the size. 296 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. many, in Italy, and in Sicily, and his re-mains have been known and classifiedsince the seventeenth century. It isthought that the bones of the same ani-mal have been found at Natchez, on theMississippi, a fact which would seem toindicate a very wide distribution of thiscreature. Other varieties of the genusFelis also existed in the epoch of thecave dwellers, and their remains aref«»und associated with those of men. Reference has already been made tothe contemporaneous existence of manGreatpachy- and the mammoth. Thisderms; restora- creatUre seems to have been tion of Elephas pnmigenius. distributed over the wholeof North America and the continent ofEurope from Lands End to SKETCH OF CAVE BEAR, DRAWN ON A STONEFOUND IN THE CAVE OF MASSET. From the north the mammoth crossedthe Alps, and his remains are found asfar south as Rome. But no traces of thispachyderm have been found south ofthe Pyrenees or in the Mediterraneanislands. As a rule, and for very obviousreasons, the bones of the mammoth areinfrequently found in the cave dwellingsof Western Europe. As already noted,the entrance to these abodes were gen-erally too narrow to admit so huge abeast; but there arc instances in whichthe bones of man and the relics of themammoth have been washed by waterinto a contemporaneous deposit in thebottom of caverns. In other localitiesthe skeletons of the mammoth or parts thereof have been found in close andfrequent association with the skeletonsof prehistoric men, and in such localitiest
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