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Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art (1916)

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York, Scribner · leaf 113

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) view; ofthe skull-top of Pithecanthropus ereclus.After Dubois. One-third life size. 78 MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE highest of the anthropoid apes. As measured by Schwalbe, theindex of the height of the cranium (Kalottenhdheindex) may becompared with others as follows: Lowest human race 52 per cent.… … Fig. 35. Head of chimpanzee—front and side views—exhibiting a head of somewhat sim-ilar shape to that of Pithecanthropus, with prominent eyebrow ridges, but muchsmaller brain capacity. Photograph from the New York Zoological Park. capacity found in a member of the Neanderthal race. Second,as seen…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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