Cro-Magnon race

The Guanches, now extinct as a distinct people, appear, from the study of skulls and bones discovered, to have resembled the Cro-Magnon race of the Quaternary age, and no real doubt is now entertained that they were an offshoot of the great race of Berbers which from the dawn of history has occupied northern Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic.

Their reports seem to indicate that the remains are not only the oldest of the prehistoric man in America, but that they belong to the "true men," i.e., contemporaries and even more advanced in development than the Cro-Magnon race of Western Europe, 20,000 to 50,000 years ago, whom Henry Fairfield Osborn declares to have been the mental equals of college men of today.

The Cro-Magnon race inherited or seized the valleys of the small-brained, beetle-browed, long-armed, chinless and nigh speechless homo neandertalensis.

They are known as the Cro-Magnon race, after a group of them discovered in a rock shelter of that name on the banks of the Vezère.

If, however, as has been already suggested, the Galley Hill individual, who shows affinities to the Cro-Magnon type, really goes back to the drift-period, then we can believe that from very early times there co-existed in Europe at least two varieties; and these so distinct, that some authorities would trace the original divergence between them right back to the times before man and the apes had parted company, linking the Neanderthal race with the gorilla and the Cro-Magnon race with the orang.