Men of the old stone age, their environment, life and art (1918)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935. [from old catalog] · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 339
With an average height of 6 feet ilA inches, these cave-dwellersmay be said to demonstrate one of the most striking traits ofthe Cro-Magnon race. In the proportions of the limbs and inthe great size of the upper part of the chest these men are re-moved from the modern European type and approach… … Fig. 145. Sections of the tibia or shin-bone, (i) the normal triangular type; and (2) the extremely platycnaemic flattened type characteristic of the Cro-Magnon race. After Broca. the leg was very long in comparison with the arm; they show aremarkable lengthening of the forearm in proportion to the…
Prehistoric peoples · Stone age · Art, Primitive
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