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 .. . e of the most interesting skullswhich has come to us from the time ofthe cave dwellers is thatfound by Dr. Schmerlingin the limestone cavern ofEngis. A cast of this skull has beenmade and duplicates distributed to theleading museums of the world, and themost skillful naturalists have passedupon its character. On the whole, it isof smaller capacity and less symmetricaldevelopment than the average craniumof the civi
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 .. . e of the most interesting skullswhich has come to us from the time ofthe cave dwellers is thatfound by Dr. Schmerlingin the limestone cavern ofEngis. A cast of this skull has beenmade and duplicates distributed to theleading museums of the world, and themost skillful naturalists have passedupon its character. On the whole, it isof smaller capacity and less symmetricaldevelopment than the average craniumof the civilized man of to-day. It isnarrower in the forehead, and gives evi-dent indications of weakness in otherrespects. But still it is of better capacityand much less forbidding than might beexpected in a case of a prehistoric inhab-itant of a cavern. The skull plate is notespecially thick, and that part which is ; Characteristicsand suggestionsof the Engisskull. supposed to indicate animality is notmore protuberant than in the case ofmany skulls of existing races. ProfessorHuxley has candidly remarked that Itis a fair average human skull, whichmight have belonged to a philosopher,. 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
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