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found at Cromagnon, in the Dordogne.* These skulls have 

 been referred, though scarcely perhaps on sufficient grounds, 

 to the Eeindeer period. 



The third, or "Furfooz" type, is named after several skulls 

 discovered by M. Dupont in caves near the village of Furfooz, 

 in Belgium. The skull is more round than in the preceding 

 types, though not so much so as in the brachycephalic races 

 of more modern times. The bones of the extremities more 

 nearly resemble those of existing Europeans, but the stature 

 was small, descending even to that of the Lapps. 



Thus then, even at a very early period, Europe was already 

 occupied by more than one race of man. Under these cir- 

 cumstances, as Professor Huxley has well pointed out, " the 

 first traces of the primordial stock whence man has proceeded 

 need no longer be sought, by those who entertain any form 

 of the doctrine of progressive development, in the newest ter- 

 tiaries ; but that they may be looked for in an epoch more 

 distant from the age of the Elephas primigenius than that is 

 from us." 



If space permitted, I would gladly have referred to other 

 cave explorations ; to those, for instance, of Dr. Kegnoli and 

 others in Italy, of the Marquis de Vibraye, M. Garrigou, M. 

 Bourguignet, M. Filhol, and many other archaeologists in the 

 south of France, where these researches have been prosecuted 

 with great energy and success. In our own country, Mr. 

 Boyd Dawkins has published an excellent work on the sub- 

 ject,^ and it is impossible in the limits of a single chapter to 

 do justice to these and other observers. 



I trust, however, that the evidence brought forward in this 

 chapter has been sufficient to prove that the presence in bone- 

 caves of ancient implements and human remains, associated 

 with those of extinct mammalia, is no rare or exceptional 



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