Identifier: popularsciencemo8313newy (find matches)
Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Technology Science A Bison on a Column of Stalagmite; prehistoric painting in the Cavern of Castillo, Puente Viesgo, Spain.
Publisher: New York : McClure, Phillips and Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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may be older. The somatic characters of the human skull (Fig. 6), especially the lower jaw, postulate great antiquity, as does the nature of the rude flint implements. That the latter were found in association with a very primitive human type would seem to give such implements a standing hitherto denied them by some authorities; unless it can be proved that they were derived from a deposit antedating the one which originally contained the human remains. Their pedigree was needed in order to make industrial genealogy complete, just as the skull itself was needed to fill a gap in mans physical evolution. It remains for the geologists to determine whether in Piltdown the prehistorians Rosetta stone has at last been found.Perhaps they will be able to tell us also whether a channel separated the man of Piltdown from his contemporaries in the near-by valley of the Somme. The present channel dates from the very close of the paleolithic period. That there was a channel in early paleolithic times is
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Pl. IV. A Bison on a Column of Stalagmite; the artist completed a figure already blocked out fortuitously by nature. Cavern of Castillo, Puente Viesgo, Spain. After Alcalde del Rio, Breuil and Sierra. Les cavernes de la region Cantibrique (Espagne). MAN, HIS ENVIRONMENT AND HIS ART 17 suggested b)r raised beaches near Calais and on the south coast of England. All things considered, it looks as if pre-neolithic man had to con-tend with more than one glacial epoch, which means an environmental disturbance of the first magnitude. Think, for example, of a great continental ice-sheet creeping slowly but inevitably down upon New York City. What an overturning of unearned increments! What a succession of Titanic disasters at sea! But unearned increments and floating palaces were happily non-existent in past glacial times. Pre-neolithic man simply abandoned his wind-break or folded his tent of skins and carried it with him. Besides the European continental ice-sheet never reached quite so far south

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