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 department of Dor-dogne, in Southwestern France, anumber of cave dwellings have beenexplored with results confirmatory ofthose attained elsewhere; and in con-nection with these caverns the addi-tional interesting fact was noted thatartificial chambers connected with thenatural vaults in the limestone had beenexcavated and used by the primitive oc-cupants. In 1858 the philosopher, Schaaf-hausen, gave to the public an account ofthe discoveries recently made in thelimestone cavern of Neanderthal, be-tween Dtisseldorf and Elberfeld, includ-ing a description of one of the most re-markable prehistoric skulls which schol-ars have had the fortune to examine. Turning to England, one of the mostimportant of the caverns . r Exploration of formerlv inhabited by men the man caverns . r-r ,1 of England. is that known as Kent s Hole, near Torquay, in Devonshire. 292 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. This was first explored by the scholar,MacEnery, in the year 1825. Nopublished account of the results, how-
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and described by William Boyd Dawkins.Meanwhile the naturalist, Goodwin-Austen, had reexamined the cavern ofipag; Kents Hole, andgiven the resultsin a memoir tothe Geological So-ciety. In 1858Dr. Falconer in-formed the samelearned body ofthe interestingdiscoveries madeby himself in acave dwelling atBrixham, also inDevonshire; andafterward a Pro-f e s s o r Ramsayexplored thegrotto and veri-fied the formerconclusions re-specting its con-tents. Explorationswere next carriedinto distant parts.In the grotto ofMaccagnone, inSicily, Dr. Fal-coner made dis-coveries in thesame general linewith those alreadyrecorded. Thepeculiarity in thisinstance was thatmany of therelics of men andanimals were )ra\vn In Riou. . was made until 1859, when therelics were classified by Mr. Vivian. In1 sr,2, a remarkable hyena den calledWokey Hole, near Wells, was explored d aggluti- f Oil nated to the top, or roof, „ ,. „ . . 1 Peculiar finds in of the cavern, where they the grotto of . , .. ., 11-1 Maccagno

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