Show I Fireside Science I By Ransome Sutton Button I Copyright 1923 1821 N N. Y i World Press Publishing Co THE CAVEMEN AND CAVE LIFE Some years ears ago the tha Neanderthal Neanderthal Neander Neander- thal thai race raco entered Europe during on one of ot the mild mUd Interglacial periods of ot the Ice Ice age and remained until about years ago affo when the non race succeeded them In Europe Where the Neanderthals came from Is la not definitely known but anthropologists anthropologists anthro anthro- Og generally al believe IO thc they came out of tt Africa fr There h was no other continent from which they could hae wandered Into Europe except and In shape head and other characterIstics characteristics characteristics charac charac- they appear moro more African than Asiatic Moreover T e ei the finding of a very I pr primitive 1 Neanderthal skull at Gibraltar tar establishes the tho fact that very early In their European career at least one member of the race came to his death on the Intercontinental land bridge The Neanderthals us as a 11 whole are thought to have havo crossed the land bridge and to have been at the timey time the tho they y Gr Gibraltar entered r Europe skull as asIt as It Is c contended by quite a a. few students students stu stu- dents of mankind that the Neanderthals Neanderthals Neander Neander- should not be Included In the list of human of-human races that they were a distinct dis dis- dis species which diverged from theUS the human etem e during n times US W sr Such contentions e however v a appear e rather fetched far-fetched Since the Neanderthals Nean Nean- looked like human beings and worked and fought like human beings wherein were they different They were fully tully as manlike as are the Bushmen Theodore Roosevelt described the tho Neanderthals as squat burly bigheaded bigheaded big big- headed thick savages with brows bro protruding over cavernous Jaws knees permanently bent and Jaws al l l. most chinless Their brains were of or good size aize but the portions which represent rep rep- resent the higher intellectual attainments attainments attain attain- ments were poorly developed At the e time of their appearance p c In E Europe p the Neanderthals n e I were outdoor out out- u door hunters but the return of ot the glaciers they moved into the caves the the- e caves av Thereafter e they plied piled within I their lr o or arts around and created the tho culture of tho the Old Stone age With their bones Intermixed with the bones of or mammals which lived from 75 to about 25 tars ars ago the stone weapons and ut utensils which they te Invented indented e have been f ti found d The relics show unquestionable in In- In Ve I ability AI tt me same level In the tho cave I Its where Neanderthal bones and art arti facts end the bones and weapons of I another race begin to appear the appear the ao so called race As s to this race there la Is no dispute they dispute they belonged be be- be longed to the same samo species homo ea- ea as ourselves A race of ot artist hunters tall tan and brainy with heads as well formed as one would find in an Indian graveyard grave grave- yard the Croma brought with them the bow and arrow and a knowledge knowledge know know- ledge of the uses Ues of ot fire lire Throughout the tho glacial period while the Neanderthals were trying to keep warm In the caves the had spent their theix time In a happier hunting ground presumably in Asia Mentally and physIcally superior to the they entered Europe as highly capable savages and proceeded proceeded pro pro- to hunt down the Neanderthals almost to a man I th the After 0 annihilating themselves the S Neanderthals d became S I cavemen and developed a a. new and greater stone culture Upon the walls pictures of the caves es of st the they animals carved d dt t they and hunted painted which as offhand drawings have not since been excelled Then as suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly as they came they disappeared The most plausible explanation of their sudden disappearance assuming that they were not wiped out by a plague is that as the tho glaciers glacier began to recede they abandoned tho caves and followed th reindeer northward settling down as Eskimos In the re regions regions re- re gions where the reindeer still lives Il |