Rae, 1887:[264] "The typical Eskimo is one of the most specialized of
the human race, as far as cranial and facial characters are concerned,
and such scanty remains as have yet been discovered of the prehistoric
inhabitants of Europe present no structural affinities with him."
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Laloy, 1898:[265] "Cette théorie est absolument contredite par les
faits." (That is, the theory of the identity of the Eskimo with the
European upper palaeolithic man.)
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Déchelette, 1908:[266] "C'est en vain qu'on a noté certains traits
d'analogie de l'art et de l'industrie * * * telles analogies
s'expliquent aisément par la parité des conditions de la vie
matérielle."
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Burkitt, 1921:[267] "Again the Magdalenians have been correlated with
the Eskimos, who inhabit to-day the icebound coastal lands to the north
of the New World, and also the similar lands, on the other side of the
straits, in the northeast corner of Asia. But the vast difference in
place and in time would make any exact correlation very doubtful."
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MacCurdy, 1924:[268] "If a Magdalenian type exists, it is probably best
represented by the skeleton from Raymonden at Chancelade (Dordogne).
One must not lose sight of the fact that the osteologic record of
fossil man is even yet so fragmentary that there is grave danger of
mistaking individual characters for those on which varieties or species
should be based."
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Keith, 1925:[269] "In the Chancelade man we are dealing with a member
of a racial stock of a true European kind."