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terian man occasions no disturbance in the human housing conditions 

 of the time, and, what is even more remarkable, no disturbance or 

 change whatsoever is occasioned by the advent of the Aurignacians. 

 Aurignacian man follows in the footsteps of his predecessor without 

 interruption. Like the Neanderthaler, he builds in the open huts of 

 perishable materials that leave no trace, and he utilizes the caves 

 exactly as much as, and eventually even more than, the Neanderthal 

 man. He continues, in fact, on many of the same sites and in most of 

 the same caves that the latter has used, without introducing any inno- 

 vation. He, also, like the Neanderthal man, leaves here and there a 

 whole series of occupational strata which testify to much the same 

 habits of life. Yet Aurignacian man is represented as a newcomer 

 of a different species from that of the Neanderthaler and mentally 

 vastly superior. 



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Food. — Neanderthal man was chiefly a hunter of the larger mam- 

 mals of his time. He knew fire, but knew not domestication of 

 animals or agriculture. He compared in these respects with the pre- 

 ceding and following man as follows : 



Food and habits relating thereto 



