The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-01

of ten persons, adults and children.
1t is estimated by the psychologists
OF their fellow beings. who subsequently
cooked and ate their victims. Primitive
man, therefore, must have been a cann1-
bal
Common Prehistoric Types.
Comparison Of the skull of the print
tive man of Krapina with those of the
man of the Neander Valley and the Spy
cave man show that they belong to the
common to both Eastern and Western
Europe. 1t also strengthens the theory
that both these previously known types
We're representative of gradation be-
tween man OF today and the ancient ami
NAL form.
1t was recently laid down at a meet
ing of naturalists at Carlsbad that the
duration of the glacial period was at least
half a million of years. The earlier Stone
Age alone-not an epoch, but merely a.
stage of development-he thought was
most certainly at least two hundred
thousand years.
I'VE can estimate. the age of the species
known as man in Europe several hun
dreds, of thousands of years" he de-
Studies of skulls and skeletons from
the last Stone Age, which is supposed to
date back from 10000 to 10000 years,
show no noticeable differences between
man of that remote time and the man OF
today. This in itself shows how immense
must have been the time that did afford
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How great thes6 chabfses were, and
how enormous cG6nseqlleaBtag must have
been the time tha6nef2psaB between the
existence of the HAND of Krapina
and the arrival Of the man as we know
him him, is shown BY rhe SHY fK1in OF the crea-
The skull of Krr:aTairfa tfsnlonger even than
the skulls Of Spy and tfle Neander Valley
far longer than any modern skull
1t is as low asrit is long. 1t is so much
lower than the lowest human skull of to-
&c cfok cd lic of
about this ancestor of men; he was separ-
ated from the man of today by a far
greater difference than was the difference
between him and the ape.
Characteristics of Monkey.
Structure of bones, the immense thick
ness over the eyes, a decided contraction
in the sides of the Krapina skull beyond
the eyes, are all characteristics OF the
monkey.
Other characteristics in the Neander
Valley, Spy and Krapina skulls show a
vast chaSm between the human being
and the monkey. Some of these varying
characteristics point to reVerSiOn to forms
even more primitive than tht monkey,
while others indicate a development to-
ward the creature of our present type.
These diVergences in opposite directions
have led the most persistent students to
the conclusion that neither Of the types
mentioned provide the missing link be-
tween man and ape. In the Krapina man
there is deep furroW between the eye
broWs over the saddle OF the nose. This
structural popularity does not occur in
apes. 1t is one of the signs that lend in
telligence to face.
Some peculiarities about the teeth Of
the man of krapina were found in the
teeth Of prehistoric ape discovered in
Mlocene formations in Germany-known as
the dryopithecus. 1t is clear that this
ape-man existed and vanished many
ages before the time of glacial man. We
therefore must look for the missing link
in the dim past, far beyond the time of
the jewellers in the Croatian cave
But the krapina skeletons have ad-
Vanced the descent Of man by confirming
as fact at least one hypothesis. In the up
per thigh of the famous Java skeleton
there is strange curvature which led
to the conclusion that it was the real
INK between ape and man. Prof. Virchow
rejected this hypothesis on the ground
that the curvature was not natural, but
due. to disease.
The Krapina skeletons all have this Gu
r1ous forward curvature, wiping away the
last Yestige of doubt that it is natural
1t IS believed from the curvature in these
skeletons that man did not always propel
hlmSef by means of his legs alone, or if
ne aid 1t IS certain that he did not walk
as erect or as freely as We do.
Max Scherer.