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L'ANTHROPOLOGIE usually devotes much space to archæology, and the recent number (vol. xvi., Nos. 4–5) contains three papers on that subject. Mr. H. Obermaier gives the first instalment of a most useful memoir on Quaternary human remains and the sites in Central Europe where they have occurred. Mr. A. Viré describes a prehistoric cave of the Solutré period at Lacave (Lot); the human bones were too fragmentary to have any value. Mr. E. Cartailhac and Father Breuil continue their account of the mural paintings and engravings of the Pyrenean caves; they give several illustrations; as is usually the case among primitive peoples, the representations of human beings fall greatly below the excellence of animal delineations. The authors come to the conclusion that in the cave of Marsoulas the earlier engravings with linear contours are associated with black paintings, while the later engravings, in which the contours are made with short lines to indicate hair, are associated with polychromatic paintings of animals. In a paper on the myology of a Negro, Messrs. R. Anthony and A. Hazard state that muscles are thick and short, thus indicating strength rather than agility. Hunting and agriculture among the populations of the Sudan are the subjects of a paper by Mr. J. Decorse. Mr. L. G. Seurat describes the marae, or stone altars, of the little frequented eastern islands of the Tuamotu Archipelago. Mr. C. Monteil discourses on the numbers and numeration among the Mandés, a large linguistic family of people of western French Africa. The journal contains the usual valuable résumé of recent anthropological literature.
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Anthropological Notes . Nature 73, 354 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073354a0
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