The Descent of Man

speak a word of the language of a lost tribe.
Ancient monuments and stone implements
found in all parts of the world, about which no
tradition has been preserved by the present
inhabitants, indicate much extinction. Some
small and broken tribes, remnants of former
races, still survive in isolated and generally
mountainous districts. In Europe the ancient
races were all, according to Shaaffhausen (29.
Translation in 'Anthropological Review,' Oct.
1868, p. 431.), "lower in the scale than the rudest
living savages"; they must therefore have
differed, to a certain extent, from any existing
race. The remains described by Professor Broca
from Les Eyzies, though they unfortunately
appear to have belonged to a single family,
indicate a race with a most singular combination
of low or simious, and of high characteristics.
This race is "entirely different from any
other, ancient or modern, that we have heard
of." (30. 'Transactions, International Congress of
Prehistoric Archaeology' 1868, pp. 172-175. See