. Elements of geology : a text-book for colleges and for the general reader. Geology. 610 PSYCHOZOIC ERA—AGE OF MAN—RECENT EPOCH. agmitic crust. This association unmistakably indicates the middle or latter part of the Quaternary period. Neanderthal Skull.—In a cave at Neanderthal, near Dusseldorf, was found a very remarkable human skeleton, which has greatly excited the interest of scientific men. The limb-bones are large, and the pro- tuberances for muscular attach- ments very prominent; the skull very thick, very low in the arch, and very prominent in the brows. It has been supposed by some
. Elements of geology : a text-book for colleges and for the general reader. Geology. 610 PSYCHOZOIC ERA—AGE OF MAN—RECENT EPOCH. agmitic crust. This association unmistakably indicates the middle or latter part of the Quaternary period. Neanderthal Skull.—In a cave at Neanderthal, near Dusseldorf, was found a very remarkable human skeleton, which has greatly excited the interest of scientific men. The limb-bones are large, and the pro- tuberances for muscular attach- ments very prominent; the skull very thick, very low in the arch, and very prominent in the brows. It has been supposed by some to be an intermediate form between man and the ape; but, according to the best authority, it is in no respect intermediate, but truly human. It is probably the skel- eton of a man exceptionally mus- cular in body and low in intelli- gence. The evidences of antiqui- ty are of the same kind, but less complete than in the case of the Engis skull, though it probably belongs to the same or, perhaps, even an earlier epoch. The Engis skull, on the other hand, is a well- shaped average human skull. A figure of the Engis skull is given. Fig. 973.—Engis Skull, reduced (after Lyell;.. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901. New York : D. Appleton and Co.
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