Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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the various relations of these strata andthe place of the cave dwellers. It must be understood with referenceto the above diagram that all existingspecies of mammals and man himself PRIMEVAL MAN.—CAVE DWELLERS OF EUROPE, 277 the recent, or quaternary, epoch. belong to what is called the recent, orquaternary, epoch. There were, how-Man belongs to ever, several species ofgreat animals formerly wellknown in Europe, whoseexistence as distinct varieties reached upfrom the pliocene period of the tertiaryepoch into the post-pliocene era, and inthat era ceased to exist. It appears thatcertain climatic changes took place in the extinct mammals above referred tothat the demonstration of this earlyform of existence on the earth has beenmade. The proof that man was con-temporaneous with several varieties ofanimal life no longer present in thecountries where it formerly flourished,is clear and irrefragable, and it only re-mains in the following pages to deter-mine as much as we may of the primi-
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IDEAI. LANDSCAPE OF THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD.—Drawn by Riou. Europe, rendering the country untenableto these forms of life. Now it is in this post-pliocene epochthat the cave dwellers had their career.Extinct mam- It was at the time whena^^Snln the species of animals justEurope. mentioned were still prev- alent in the west of Europe that thecave man had his abode there. He wastheir companion and fellow of the woodsand caverns; and it is by the commin-gling of the debris and ruins of his sav-age life with the relics and vestiges of tive condition in which the cave manheld his barbarous fortunes. The savage races of men, on their wayfrom the low condition in which theyare still found in absolute savages passbarbarity to civilized peo- ^™ft^Tpies, pass through four civilization,epochs of development. These are de-termined by archaeologists chiefly bythe character of the implements andutensils which are fabricated by primi-tive peoples in the different stages oftheir progress. It had bee

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