This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...of the numerous human bones found shewed lesions of arthritis deformans1 and one of the jaws from the same site shewed the oldest known case of dental fistula2. The accumulation of piles of decaying refuse about the entrances to the habitations, however indifferent and hardened to them the people might ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...of the numerous human bones found shewed lesions of arthritis deformans1 and one of the jaws from the same site shewed the oldest known case of dental fistula2. The accumulation of piles of decaying refuse about the entrances to the habitations, however indifferent and hardened to them the people might have been, cannot have been healthy. The close confinement of a necessarily limited community, isolated from other similar groups, would probably lead to inbreeding with all its attendant physical disadvantages. These adverse influences, combined with an increasing difficulty of obtaining food, owing to the more rigorous climate and to the consequent restriction of animal life, must have had a degenerating effect upon the population. Signs of this degeneration are clearly visible, both in the physical constitution of the people and in their handiworks; and it culminated in their total disappearance. (2) Human remains of the Middle Palaeolithic Term When we reach the Mousterian stage we at last find ourselves tolerably well supplied with material for the study of the physical characters of the tool-makers. We now proceed to give a brief description of the principal human remains which have been discovered belonging to this stage. I. Neandertal. It is natural to begin with the fragments from Neandertal, not because they offer the best specimen of Mousterian Man known, but because they were the first of their kind to attract scientific notice. The name has, in consequence, become indissolubly associated with this type of humanity. But for several reasons the Neandertal skeleton does not fulfil the ideal of a typical specimen. It is very imperfect: and it was not found associated with any datable objects, so that its period has to be determined...
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