[14] Les Peintures préhistoriques de la Caverne d’Altamira, Annales du Musée Guimet, Paris, 1904, tome xv. p. 131.
[15] Émile de Cartailhac et H. Breuil, La Caverne d’Altamira, Paris, 1906, p. 145. Professor Boyd-Dawkins, Early Man in Britain, London, 1880, p. 233. But their technique in flaking, etc., suggests a later date.
[16] The route was probably by Russia, Siberia, and across the land now cut by the Behring Straits.
[17] In H. Ling Roth’s The Aborigines of Tasmania, London, 1890 (see Preface by Tylor on page vi.), “It is thus apparent that the Tasmanians were at a somewhat less advanced stage in the art of stone implement making than the Palæolithic men of Europe.”
[18] Cf. W. J. Sollas, Ancient Hunters, London, 1911, p. 70.
[19] Evans, op. cit., p. 9. See also an interesting essay by Professor E. T. Hamy, L’Anthropologie, tome xix. p. 385 ff., on La Figure humaine chez le sauvage et chez l’enfant.
[20] C. Rau, op. cit., Washington, 1884. Salomon Reinach, Antiquités Nationales, vol. i., 1889. W. I. Hoffmann, The Graphic Art of the Eskimo, Report to Smithsonian Museum, 1895, p. 751.
[21] At Cogul the sacral dance is performed by women clad from the waist downwards in well-cut gowns, which at Alpera are supplemented by flying sashes, and at Cueva de la Vieja reach to the bosom. Verily, we are already a long way from Eve! Cf. Evans, op. cit., p. 8.
[22] Cook’s Third Voyage, Bk. I. ch. vi. W. C. Wentworth, A Statistical, etc., Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, London, 1819, p. 115: “They have no knowledge whatever of the art of fishing”; the only fishing was done by women diving for shellfish. G. T. Lloyd, Thirty-three Years in Tasmania and Victoria, London, 1862, pp. 50-52. Ling Roth, op. cit., p. 75.
[23] No Maya hook has as yet been brought to light, although this was employed by practically all the races aboriginal or other from Alaska to Peru.