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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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16 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL

Since these Crô-Magnon men may in
part be our ancestors, we should like to
know whence they came and in what
manner they faded away or were en-
gulfed. To these pertinent questions
no very clear answers can be given.
There is no reason to believe that the
race came into being on the spot. No
part of Europe is considered the ancestral
home of any known type of man, but all



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Head of the “*Old Man of Crô-Magnon”’ (rejuvenated by the restoration of the teeth), showing the method
of restoration adopted in the models by Dr. J. H. McGregor. By carefully overlaying these ancient skulls with
clay of a thickness corresponding to averages for the soft tissues of modern men, the approximate appearance of
these men in life is obtained.

are assumed to have been dispersed from
some center in Asia. So far as the Crô-
Magnons have racial affinities elsewhere,
we find them in Asia and the extreme
north of America.

Our author notes their slight anatomi
cal similarity to the Eskimo but does not
discuss the point further. It may be
permissible to digress slightly at this
point because the striking parallel be-

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