Lectures And Essays
, by Huxley, Thomas Henry- ISBN: 9781419129452 | 1419129457
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/30/2004
But the human bones and cranium from the Neanderthal exceed all the rest in those peculiarities of conformation which lead to the conclusion of their belonging to a barbarous and savage race. Whether the cavern in which they were found, unaccompanied with any trace of human art, were the place of their interment, or whether, like the bones of extinct animals elsewhere, they had been washed into it, they may still be regarded as the most ancient memorial of the early inhabitants of Europe.