Identifier: popularsciencemo8313newy (find matches)
Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1913 (1910s)
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Subjects: Technology Science
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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lant stems, skins, etc., were used, but notone trace of these has been preserved. It is also fairly safe to assumethat fire-making was a very early invention of man, for unmistakabletraces of it are found as far back as Mousterian times (and have beenreported by one author in the Acheulian and Chellean). The hearth suggests a roof and these the family and possibly thetribe. At Torralba, Province of Soria, Spain, the Marquis of Cerralbohas recently uncovered a large camp site, which has yielded an associa-tion of rude eolithic and Chellean industry with the remains of a veryold fauna: Eleplias antiquas (and possibly also the Pliocene elephant),Rhinoceros etrascus, Equus stenonis, and a large and small deer. Somesort of tribal organization would naturally develop under such con-ditions. Man very early sought shelter under overhanging rocks and in cav-erns, but these are limited geographically while mans range was practic-ally unlimited. La Quina (Charente) was in Mousterian times a mag-
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PL. II. Bas Relief frojjc the Rock Shelter of Laussel (Dokdogne), repre-senting a nude female holding a bison horn; Aurignacian age. After Lalanne.LAnthropologie, XXIII., 131, 1912. MAN, HIS ENVIRONMENT AND HIS ART 13 nificent rock shelter facing the northwest, bnt the overhanging rockweathered away long ago, leaving a thick talus slope over the relic-bear-ing deposits (Fig. 1). Here Dr. Henri Martin found a nearly completefemale skull of the Neandertal type and a portion of the skeleton.Placard (Charente), occupied in Mousterian, Solutrean, and Magda-lenian times, is a great shallow dry cave, a comfortable and picturesquehome for early man (Fig. 2). Equally picturesque is Mas dAzil(Ariege), a subterranean stream bed with connecting caverns occupiedby man in so-called Azilian times, that is to say at the very close of thepaleolithic period (Fig. 3). Shelters were evidently produced arti-ficially at an early date, and no doubt varied according to locality justas they do among primitive

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