The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-10-21
Early Man Seen
in Living Pygny

cause -infantilism seems to be apt to
occur; in others, such as the broad.
fiat nose, because the features are of
value to promote cooling. Others may
be Specifications, including perhaps
the close-spiral hair, the great deyel-
opment of skin blood vessels. the
everted lips, the thin, supple epidernfis
without many dry layers, all of which
would promote cooling. The bush
man in the desert has fair thickness
of dry skin, and has not the great de
velopment Of skin blood vessels seen
In some other African types.
ut is interesting to note the gen
| eral dark coloring of sthe presumed
survivors Of early man in southerly
lands of the Old World, with the ex-
ception of the African forest pygmies
and the Bushmen 1t may be that the
pigment formerly supplying the hairs
remained in the skin as the hair di-
minished in quantity, especially in
view of, the fact that certain amount
| of pigment is a valuable protection
against the too great influence of the
| shorter visible (blue end of spectrum
rays of the sun 1t was, obviously
especially types with broad, fiat noses,
prominent mouths and feeble brow
ridges and spirally curved hair that
spread southwark in Africa. but
brow-ridged type also went that same
way.
Early Man in Africa.
ssuho s,,,,,,,<Ds,,7 sc,,t F,xvovl ,l,.;ff into
Africa south of the Sahara was drift
affecting chiefly the people of the
southerly belt of the zone early mod
ern man is held to have occupied.
What may be called the southeasterly
drift would be drift of somewhat
different character, drift from the
eastern end of the zone and drift
thus affecting not only the people of
the southerly belt, but also those of
the belt further north. Thus there
drifted in this direction not only the
little people with small nonlengthened
heads, who reached various points
around southeast Asia, but also other
types"
Taking up the northwestward and
northeastward drifts of early types of
modern man as indicated in present
day populations, Professor Fleure con-
tinued:
"HyperdoIichocepha people occur
here and there in the European quad
rant OF the Old world. in Ireland,
Wales, Norway, the Dordogne, Tras-
os-Montes in north Portugal, in Sar-
DINA, in the southeast Carpathian re-
gion and in north Africa. The apprO-
pirate type of skull is a noteworthy
feature in Kurgan burials in south
Russia. Sometimes, as in north At
RIGA and in Wales and France, at
least, the people concerned suggest
likeness to the Grimaldi type. In other
cases the resemblances is rather to
the Moravian group or the Combe
Capelle skull.
"Rodd has claimed that the Libyans
include people who show the features
of the Cro-Magnon type. Telesforo de
Aranzadi makes similar claims for
Biscayan Spain, and Collignon made
them also for the Dordogne. The sur
vival of the Cro-Magnon type is per-
haps hardly established, but it seems
probable. We may thus form the idea
that a basic element in the population
Of the European quadrant is very
old mixture of early types of modern
man with subsequent interbreeding
and notifications. In addition to this
basic element there are immigrants of
other fvDeS from outside
Long Heads in America.
when the ice sheets were retreat
ing finally the way northward between
the Elburz mountains and the Hindu
Kush was probably beginning to be
opened up, though doubtless the ice
sheets on the Pamirs and adjacent
ranges were still mighty. and the
highland plateau Of Mongolia, and
much more the mountains of Tibet,
were certainly still almost uninhabit-s
able. Doubtless therefore, men
spreading in this direction were from
the first possessed Of characteristics
protecting them from bitter cold
Men with very long, high heads
who appear to be linked at least dis
family with the early types have
reached America by northeastward
drift, at first avoiding the great high
land mass of central Asia.
Some living near or on the Ice
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