Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-19
The Outline of History-By H. @. Wells
|. The Romance of Mother Earth

more highly divergent races of true men.
The may have overlapped in time, or Gro
Magnards may have followed the Grimaldi
race and either or botL may have been con-
temporary with the late Neanderthal men.
Various authorities have very strong opin-
ions upon these points, but they are at most
opinions.
The appearance of these truly human post
glacial Palaeolithic copies was certainly an
enormous leap forward in the history Of
mankind. Both of these main races had a
human forebrain, human hand, an intelli-
gence very like our own. They dispossessed
Homo Neanderthalesis from his cayerns
and his stone quarries. And they agreed
with modern ethnologists, it would seem, in
regarding him as different species.
A Race of Mighty Hunters
Unlike most savage conquerors, who take
the women of the Gofeated side for their
own, and interbreed with them, it would
seem that the true men would have nothing
to do with the Neanderthal race, women or
men. There is no trace of any intermixture
between the races, in spite of the fact that
the newcomers, being also flint users were
establishing themselves in the very same
spots that their predecessors had occupied
We know nothing Of appearance OF the Mean
derthal man, but this absence Of intermixture
seems to suggest an extreme hairiness. an
ugliness, or repulsive strangeness in their
his beetle brows, his ape neck and his in
ferior stature. Or he-and she-may have
been too fierce to tame. Says Sir Harry
Johnston, in a survey of the rise Of modern
man in his Views and Reviews: 'The
dim racial remembrance Of such gorilla-like
monsters, with cunning brains, shambling
gait, hairy bodies, strong teeth and possibly
cannibalistic tendencies, may be the germ Of
the ogre in folklore
These true men of the Palaeolithic Age,
who replaced the Neanderthalers, were COM
ing into a milder climate, and although they
used the caves and shelters of their prede-
cessors, they lived largely in the open. They
were hunting peoples, and some or all of
them appear to have hunted the mammoth
and the wild horse, as well as the reindeer,
bison and aurochs They ate much horse.
At great open-air camp at Solutre, where
they seem to have had annual gatherings for
many centuries, it is estimated that there are
the bones of 100, 900 horses, besides reindeer,
mammoth and bison bones. They probably
followed herds of horses, the little bearded
ponies of that age, as these moved after
pasture. They hung about on the flanks Of
the herd and became very wise about its
habits and dispositions. A large part Of
these mems lives must have been spent in
watching animals.
Whether they tanned and domesticateG the
horse is still an open question. Perhaps
they learned to do SO by degrees as the CEN
turtles passed. At any rate we find late Pal
ceolithic drawings of horses with marks
about the heads that are strongly suggestive
Of brides and there exists carving of a
horses head showing what is perhaps rope
of twisted skin or tendon. But even If they
tanned the horse, it is still more doubtful
whether they rode it or had much use for it
when it was tanned. The horse they knew
was wild pony with beard under it's chin,
not up to carrying man for any distance
It 1t improbable that these men had yet
learned the rather unnatural use of animal
milk as food. If they tanned the horse at last,
it was the only animal they seemed to have
tanned. They had no dogs, and they had lit
tie to do with any sort of domesticated sheep
or cattle.
ITO BE CONTINTIETM