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Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 304

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it would appear more probable thatthey were, as their skeletal characters indicate, true negroidswhich perhaps foimd their way from Africa but never becameestablished as a race in western Europe. The t)7pe consists of two skeletons found in the Grotte desEnfants by Verneau in 1906. One skeleton is… … Fig. 132. Section of the Grotte des Enfants, after Tschirret. In deposits which accumu-lated to a thickness of over 30 feet this grotto contains in its ascending strata a com-plete epitome of the vicissitudes of climate, together with four burials of members ofthe Cr6-Magnon Race, and, near the…

Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive

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