“In Brussels between 1909 and 1914, Louis Mascré sculpted away for Belgium’s Royal Academy of Science, creating a plaster cranium, a mother and child, the upper body of an elder. At a time when Belgium was brutalizing the Congo, the country’s Royal Academy compared Africans to apes and also depicted Neanderthals as simian rather than caveman-like.” BelgiumBrusselsPrehistoryBelgium CongoLouis MascréRoyal Academy Of Science Book:The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins Source: The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins