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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 87

An illustration from Men of the old stone age : their environment, life and art, 1916, leaf 87 — oth, and the forehead lacks the promi-nent ridges above the orbits; thus the profile of the skull of 5-2 MEX OF THE OLD STONE AGE the gibbon (Fig. 16) is more human than that of the other an-thropoid apes. When on the ground the gibbon walks erect andis thus afforded the free use of its arms and… … Fig. iS. The chimpanzee. This figure illustrates the walking powers of the chimpanzee, the great length of the arms, and the abbreviation of the legs. Photograph from the New York Zoological Park. tively slight changes the type of the original ancestor of man,as noted by Elliot Smith.2 The limbs of…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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