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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 92

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height, with broad, bony ridgesabove the orbits and a great median crest on top of the skull inold males. The lower jaw of the orang is stout and deep, and,although used as a fighting weapon, the canine tusks are much ANCESTRY OF THE ANTHROPOID APES 53 less prominent than in either the gibbon,… … FiG. 19. The chimpanzee. This figure shows certain facial characteristicswhich are preserved in the Neanderthal race of men. Note also theshortening of the thumb and the enlargement of the big toe. Photographfrom the New York Zoological Park. panzee most nearly resembles that of the Piltdown man.…

Prehistoric peoples · Paleolithic period · Art, Primitive

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