Spain and all of Europe not actually under ibsp;sisted of bleak uplands under a harder climate than that of Labrador, and it was only when North Afribsp;was reached that one would have found a temperate climate.
Across the cold steppes of Southern Europe with its spar arctibsp; vegetation, drifted subsp;hardy creatures as the woolly mammoth, and woolly rhinoceros, great oxen and reindeer, no doubt following the vegetation northward in spring and southward in autumn.
Subsp;was the se through whibsp;the Neahaler wandered, gathering subsp;subsistenbsp;as he could from small game or fruits and berries and roots.
Possibly he was mainly a vegetarian, chewing twigs and roots.
His level elaborate teeth suggest a largely vegetarian dietary.
But we also find the long marrow bones of great animals in his caves, cracked to extrabsp;the marrow.
His ons could not have been of mubsp;avail in open flibsp;with great beasts, but it is suppod that he attacked them with spears at difficult river crossings and even structed pitfalls for them.
Possibly he followed the herds and preyed upon any dead that were killed in fights, and perhaps he played the part of jackal to the sabre-toothed tiger whibsp;still survived in his day.
Possibly in the bitter hardships of the Glacial Ages this creature had taken to attag animals after long ages of vegetarian adaptation.
We ot guess what this Neahal man looked like.
He may have been very hairy and very unhuman-looking indeed.
It is even doubtful if he went erect.
He may have ud his knuckles as well as his feet to hold himlf up.
Probably he went about alone or in small family groups.
It is inferred from the structure of his jaw that he was incapable of speebsp;as we uand it.
For thousands of years the Neahalers were the highest animals that the European area had ever en; and then some thirty or thirty-five thousand years ago as the climate grew warmer a rabsp;of kindred beings, more intelligent, knowing more, talking and co-operating together, came drifting into the Neahaler’s world from the south.
They ousted the Neahalers from their caves and squatting places; they hunted the same food; they probably made war upon their grisly predecessors and killed them off.