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interred in a primitive tomb made of rough slabs of stone; 

 that some ideas of a future life were already in existence 

 at this early date, is shown by the fact that the bones of the 

 leg of a bison were found immediately overlying the skull, and 

 so related in position as to show that the leg when interred 

 must have been entire and probably still clothed with flesh. 

 No doubt it was intended to provide food for the departed 

 in his journey to the next world. 



The skull was found broken into several fragments ; these 

 have been very skilfully and successfully pieced together, so 

 that the original form is very accurately reproduced. That 

 part of it which corresponds with the original Neandertal 

 calotte is of almost precisely the same form, so that we can 

 have no doubt as to its racial identity. In our previous account 

 of the face of Neandertal man our data were derived from 

 the Gibraltar skull, 1 and it is extremely gratifying to find that 

 the new skull from Correze repeats the features of the 

 Gibraltar skull in almost every particular ; the only excep- 

 tion of any importance being the presence of marked facial 

 prognathism, which, as we have seen, does not exist in the 

 Gibraltar skull. There is nothing very remarkable in this — 

 it is indeed just what might have been expected ; and it may 

 be added that the range of variation with respect to this 

 character within the Neandertal race is fully equalled among 

 some existing primitive races such as the Australians. 



Passing over a multitude of details of great interest and 

 importance, we will only refer now to the cranial capacity, 

 which is unexpectedly great and indeed astonishing. Prof. 

 Boule has ascertained by measurement that it amounts to no 

 less than 1600 cubic centimetres. In the Gibraltar skull the 

 capacity is 1250 c.c. or thereabouts. Thus the range so far as it 

 is known extends from 1250 to 1600 c.c. The average capacity 

 greatly exceeds that of the Australians, which is 1230 c.c. In 

 this, as in some other respects, the Australians appear to be 

 the more primitive. 



It is fortunate that the new skull is accurately "dated " ; the 

 implements which occur with it are typical Mousterian forms, 

 and it is to the Mousterian horizon that we can now definitely 

 assign the Neandertal race. 



It is a long way from the fragmentary Neandertal calotte 

 1 Science Progress, 1909, 4, pp. 525-6. 



