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Aurignacian age. bears most striking resem
blance to him of the Magdalenian age, supposedly
a much more developed individual.
Compare this man of La Colombere with the
middle one of the three human faces from the
cave of Marsoulas, shown this page. He has
the same respectable skull development, much
more like that of the possessor of the Piltdown
skull than that of the ape-like "Neanderthal man"
and his congerers. The nose. it will also be
noted, Is very similar to that of the Marsoulas
man, likewise the heavy chin.
So much for the contentious of the Frenchmen
who have made this remarkable find. Backed up
though they are by good arguments. it is not like
ly that they will be swallowed without struggle
On the contrary, they will probably be the cause
of still another controversy to add to the already
stormy annals of anthropoogy. For there is
doubtedy another side to the question.
First, as to the pictures just found of La Colon
biere. In spite of the fact that those similar to
them-including the human faces of the cave of
Marsouas-are generally ascribed by Frenchmen
not to the Aurignacan but to the later Magdaen-
ian age, others think them productions of Aurig-
nician artists. If this latter theory is accepted
the man" Of La Colombiere is simply one more
to add to the scanty gallery of Aurignacian depc-
tons Of human beings. Even If he proves to be
that and nothing more, he will be accounted
precious find, but naturally his value will not be
so enormous as those who have found him and
those who share their views would have us be-
lieve.
Second as to whether the man" of La Colon
bere proves that descended from the
Neanderthal-Spy-La Chapelleaux-Saints race
the race represented by him Of the Pitdown skull.
There, too, matters by no means easy
as they look to the sanguine Frenchmen. Plenty
of learned men who have studied the subject OF
the descent of man are of the opinion that man
may be descended from neither of these interest
ing groups they contend that both of these races
may have become extinct and that mankind
sprang, possibly, from some race which appeared
later.
The latest from abroad shows that the
man OF La Colombiere has already set learned
tongues to wagging against each other. Already
Messrs Mayet and Pissot, the savants who found
him, have hornets nest about their In
London Mr.. J. Leon Williams, writing in the Illus
trated London News has placed himself on record
as foe to the belief that he of La Colombiere is
the earliest picture of man. Mr.. Williams idea
is that have to do here not with faithful de-
lineation Of the human form but with a carica-
ture. He writes:
"As Messrs Mayet and Pissot say the drawing
is very clear, especially the face and upper part
of the head The back Of the head and the neck
do not seem to me very well defined in the pho
tograph
THE discoveries speak of this drawing as hav-
ing none of TIA characteristics represented by the
Neanderthal Spy or La Chapelle-aux- Saints
FOSSIL skull of Chancelade. They say:
4 The head is large, the forehead round and
prominent (bombre), rising slightly obquely.
The face is long, though pulled out from be-
low upward, and is distinctly projected forward;
the chin Is prominent, and has a short beard In
dicated by small lines; the nose is long and very
thick; the eye is indicated by two curved lines
and has an indehnable expression.
''In this detailed description it is quite evident
that DIR. Mayet and M Pissot believe that we have
here something in the nature of realistic draw
ing of Aurignacian man. This is confirmed by
their further statement that we have not previous
ly found any engraved figures that teach us any
thing definite about the exact form of contour Of
the human face Of the Aurignacan or Soutrian
periods, and that this want has been filled
by their discoveries.
With these statements AID conclusions find
it impossible to agree At least two other en-
cravings of the human face have been previously
discovered, one in the Grodte des Fees in the
Gironde. and the other in the Font-de-Gaume at
Les Eyzies (Dordogne D.. |
Il think 1t will be clearly Iseen that the great
interest In this new discovery lies not in the be-