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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 91

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e Neanderthal skull as well as in the Pithecanthropusor Trinil skull but, so far as we know, is entirely lacking in thatof Piltdown. As in the orang and the gorilla, a crest developsalong the middle of the top of the skull for the insertion of thepowerful muscles of the jaws, a crest which is… … Fig. 21. Contrast of the projecting face (prognathism), retreating forehead, andsmall brain-case of a young gorilla, as compared with the vertical face, promi-nent nose, high forehead, and large brain-case of a high race of man. AfterKlaatsch. life partly arboreal, partly terrestrial, with the…

Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive

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