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of the Neanderthalers, and perhaps even more. The remains were 

 generously promised as a gift to the Paris Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, where they are at present. 



That same year (1911), Dr. Martin made a more detailed report 

 on the skull to the Societie prehistorique, which is followed, in 

 1912, by a second and third, and in 1913 by a fourth report on the 

 cranium,' with many details on the now reconstructed specimen, many 

 measurements, some discussion of the opinions held by the discoverer, 

 especially as to the burial of the skeleton, which he strongly holds to 

 have been accidental, and finally an interesting efifort at reconstruc- 

 tion of the head of the La Quina woman — for the skeleton is now 

 regarded as that of a female. 



Meanwhile, in 191 1, Dr. Martin discusses again" the nature of the 

 La Quina deposits and their archeological contents, some of which 

 show forms that seem to some observers to be perhaps Aurignacian. 

 Of the two interesting paragraphs in conclusion the first reads : 



But here, as in many other deposits of early man, there are evidences of transi- 

 tion and of precursor-implements which are of the highest interest, for they 

 denote a transformation, a progress towards the better; at the same time 

 certain persistences, such as those of the coups-dc-poing, indicate simply the 

 prolonged use of a good tool.^ 



Towards the end of 191 2 Dr. Martin enumerates, in a brief report 

 to the Academy of Sciences in Paris,' the human skeletal remains 

 found in the La Quina deposits up to that date. They comprised : 



'Bull. Soc. prehist. France, 1911 Rep., 12 pp., 3 pis.; 1912 Rep., 36 pp., 3 pis.; 

 1912 Rep., 8 pp., I pi. ; 1913 Rep., 4 pp. Another brief note on the " Skull of the 

 Mousterian fossil man of La Quina " is found in the C. R. Assoc, fr. Acad. Sci., 

 pp. 537-538, 1912. 



^ Les couches du gisement de La Quina et leur age. Sixieme Congres pre- 

 historique de France. 1911 Rep., 4 pp. 



^ " Mais iqi, comme dans beaucoup d'autres gisements, il y a des termes de 

 passage et des outils precurseurs, qui sont du plus haut interet, car ils denotent 



