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Show 1 SnH AOOTKSf x,,,, "J Enoush ,o Ue a Stone Ch. TumUlg ItltO MUTi. tO. the f? Jllfc" IhHB Dandy Who Wore Bracelets 100,000 Years Ago JKillMil? First Age The Pithecanthropus Erectus, Who Was Half Man and Half Ape. Q OIBNCE and art have contrived to show us the earliest ances-tors ances-tors of the human race in the form of sculpture. A Belgian sculptor, Louis Mascre, has made a remarkable series of statues of the principal types of pre-historic pre-historic man. A distinguished scientific archaeologist, A. Rutot gave the sculptor the information and models on which he based his w ork. These statues were entirely based on the bonea and other remains ac-tually ac-tually found of the prehistoric men represented. Here we may see our ancestors who were not quite hu-man hu-man and others who were only Just human, and so on up to the man of 20,000 years ago, who could reason about as -well as the average man of to-day. They may be described as the seven ages of prehistoric man, for seven principal periods are rep-resented. rep-resented. The first statue of the series In order of time represents the "pithe-canthropus "pithe-canthropus erectus,'' the apc-muu, who walked erect His remains were discovered by Dr. Dubois in Java. His brute-like face seems destitute of human intelligence, but he already al-ready exercises a certain domination over the other animals. He slouches forward like an ape, but he walks erectly on his feet and not on all fours. He has learned to use fragments of stones with which to cut down fruits, to make a passage for himself him-self through the forests and to defend de-fend himself. He is a vegetarian and does not know the use of fire. He lived at the end of the liertiary period, several hundred thousand years ago. Next in point of time comes the Heidelberg man, who lived at the beginning be-ginning of the quaternary geological period. A whole lower Jaw bone, with a full eet of teeth, of this prehistoric pre-historic man was found by Professor Mauer, of Heidelberg. This man is said to show a great advance over the tertiary man, because he is a meat eciter. The statue represents hlra returning from the hunt with a young wiid boar. His hand is grasping his weapon, a sort of stone club with one end pointed. Science knows that the men of this race usea such a weapon, for several specimens of it have been found, notably one in Tasmania. Tasma-nia. The forehead of this man is scarcely any higher than that of his predecessor, but there is an expression expres-sion of increased determination on hiB face. He displays an air of triumphant tri-umphant strength and also fatigue from his recent struggle with the beast. There is a suggestion in his face of the suffering that the Increasing Increas-ing severity of the struggle for life will Inflict on his descendants. The next man represented a considerable con-siderable advance. Ho is the Galley Gal-ley Hill man found at the place of that name in the English county of Kent. Remains of the same type of man have been found on the'banks of the Seine in France and in many other parts of the world. According to 11. Rutot, this Is the earliest type of "homo sapiens," the reasoning man. In him Instinct is evolving Into reason and by its light he is beginning to direct his force and his craft. He Is the inventor of palaeolithic industry, the systematic chipping of flint stones, with which he fashions knives, axes and clubs. He does not fear to attack the gigantic gi-gantic mammoth of his age. Ho even oppresses and enslaves the creatures of his wn species, the men of the Hoidelberg type. He inaugurates in-augurates human shivery. The statue of the Galley Hill man shows him holding in his right hand a stone knife of a form that lias actually ac-tually been found. Around his neck hangs a reserve weapon. In this latter feature the scientists trace the beginning of the custom of wearing wear-ing ornaments. In later ages this was to develop into the wearing of necklaces made of stones or the teeth of lions, wolves and other animals. ani-mals. These are very commonly found In prehistoric graves. Later the stones and animals' teeth, were replaced by purely ornamental objects, such as pieces of metal and colored clay. Still later these objects ob-jects were worn by women also, and finally, after many ages, by them alone. To-day the society woman, wearing her Buperb pearl necklace, is perpetuating the custom of this Galley Hill man who wore his extra stone hatchet hanging round his neck. A much higher type of humanity is shown In the statue of "the broad-headed broad-headed men of Grenelle." This is said to represent a fusion of the new Laponlc type of man with the older races. M. Rutot holds with many other scientists that our race does not spring from one prehuman stock alone, but from the mixture of several. sev-eral. We find a juxtaposition and collaboration collab-oration of several types in the earliest ear-liest deposits of human remains. In 1 the man found at Grenelle, in France, it is said there flowed the blood of three prehistoric types. Each of these marked an advance on its predecessor in tho art of fashioning tools and weapons. The Grenelle man had mastered the art of throwing the spear. This was a great step forward In human progress, for it enabled a tribo to fight at a considerable distance and to crush any tribe not so armed. The man of Combe-Capelle represents repre-sents another great stage of progress. prog-ress. This statue shows him using a scraper, which proves him to have been the ancestor of all the carpenters carpen-ters who have lived since then. He wears a bear's skin, for he lived in the glacial period, Tho scientists who have made these reconstructions havo taken the peculiar view of regarding the Neanderthal Nean-derthal skull as belonging to a later age than several of those already mentioned. Although his head Indicates Indi-cates him to have been loss developed devel-oped mentally, they hold that this famous skull represents a man of the early tertiary type, born in the Copyright, IVl-i, by tho Star Company. Groat Britain Blfhta Reserved, Seventh Age The Neolithic Man of 20,000 Years Ago, Who Used Stone Weapons Skilfully and Subdued All the Animals. period of the domination of superior races. Other statues show the negroid man of 'Mentone and a woman of Sixth Age The Combe-C 'ty. elle, the Earliest Man AppT t, mating the Present Human T tho same race. They recall ttai teresting fact that a negro-like i , lived In the south of France In i di I early prehistoric times. 0l Finally we see a statue ofj u neolithic man, or man oC the news 'S age. He has achieved an enorfl Tgct it advance on all the other men U fashioning of tools and wean lm The sculptor has represented jjan' neolithic man with a powerful Mi. uplifted to strike with one HKSb while with the other he holdjU j bunch of javelins. He wears . like air. as of one who will sttmgii all other creatures on the globejlat a This last statue- was ro&nstrafr from a skeleton of the ncollwjjja period, found at Spiennos, in;.jl!1l glum, in 1911. 'jJTe ! is |