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

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 252

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established by Schwalbeas the most important missing link between the existing speciesof man {Homo sapiens) and the anthropoid apes. In 1856-^some workmen were engaged in clearing a small loam-coveredcave about six feet in height, the so-called Feldhofner Grotto, inthe cretaceous limestone of the… … Fig. T07. The original type skull of Neanderthal (left side) discoveredin 1856. After Schwalbe. One-quarter life size. Diisseldorf. They discovered some human bones, probably acomplete skeleton representing an interment, which, unfortu-nately, were allowed to be scattered and crushed. Doctor…

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