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least fourteen different individuals. The bones are in a bad 

 state of preservation, and show traces of burning, some of 

 them being calcined. The bones were associated with objects 

 of Mousterian industry, and bones of extinct animals such as 

 Rhinoceros merckii, Ursus spelaeus, Bos primigenms, etc. The 

 aforesaid Rhinoceros is an older type than the Rhinoceros 

 tichorhinus associated with the men of Spy, and implies a hot 

 climate, wherein the Rhinoceros merckii managed to persist 

 for a longer time than in the north. Hence the remains are 

 thought to belong to the last Interglacial period. 



In general, the bones show the same racial characteristics 

 as those of Neanderthal and Spy, though they are said to be 

 of a perceptibly more modern type than the latter. They 

 were men of short stature and strong muscular development. 

 "The crania," says Hrdlicka, "were of good size externally, 

 but the brain cavities were probably below the present aver- 

 age. The vault of the skull was of good length and at the same 

 time fairly broad, so that the cephalic index, at least in some 

 of the individuals, was more elevated than usual in the crania 

 of early man." (Loc. cit., pp. 530, 531.) The reader must 

 take Hrdlicka's use of the word "usual" with "the grain of 

 salt" necessitated in view of the scanty number of specimens 

 whence such inductive generalizations are derived. The 

 pronounced and complete supraorbital arcs characteristic of 

 the Neanderthaloid type occur in this group also, though in a 

 less marked manner. The stone implements are evidence of 

 the intelligence of these men. 



(9) The Le Moustier Man: This specimen, Homo mousteri- 

 ensis Hauseri, was found by Prof. 0. Hauser in the "lower 

 Moustier Cave" at Le Moustier m the valley of the Vezere, 

 Department of Dordogne in France, during the March of 1908. 

 It consists of the complete skull and other skeletal parts of 

 a youth of about 15 years. At this age, the sex cannot be 

 determined from the bones alone. Obermaier assigns these 

 bones to the Fourth Glacial period. Prof. George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy 's anthropological evaluation is the following: "The race 



