WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN — HRDLICKA 2/9 



These remains appeared to Dr. Martin to have proceeded from 

 nine skeletons. All the remains showed Neanderthal affinities. None, 

 he believed, were from intentional burial ; there were no traces of 

 cannibalism. 



A further report by Dr. Martin on the discovery of fossil man of 

 La Quina, in 1912/ contains some interesting passages that deserve 

 to be quoted in full. In these the author says (pp. 63-64) : 



At the base of the [La Quina] deposit we have found flint implements with 

 very simple flaking, while at their top the work reaches a greater perfection ; 

 this modification in the industry proves that the Mousterian period was very 

 long and that a palpable cultural progress was realized during the period. 



Why not then admit that the author of this progress has also himself become 

 perfected on the spot, and that his procedure as well as his work became more 

 delicate? It is surely rational to admit that his dawning intelligence augmented 

 his cerebral mass. The bestial aspect left his physiognomy, his traits became 



finer — all this meaning progress towards present conditions We feel 



authorized to say that according to the present state of our knowledge, this 

 Neanderthal race, which eventually disappeared, still manifests itself occasion- 

 ally by atavism, in exceptional development of the supraorbital arches ; but this 

 ancestral stigma is no more accompanied by other characteristics so peculiar to 

 primitive man. 



In 1 91 3, Dr. Martin reports on the robustness of the La Quina and 

 other Neanderthal lower jaws.^ He has develoj^ed a promising new 

 graphic technique for the presentation of his results. The Neanderthal 

 mandibles show considerable uniformity in strength. 



For the next few years Dr. Martin devoted himself as much as 

 practicable to further explorations at La Quina, and to the preparation 

 of his final memoirs. But the war intervened and he became a surgeon 

 in the army. Nevertheless a supervision of the deposits was carried 

 on by Mme. Martin and one of the young sons, a happy result of 

 which was the discovery, on August 23, 191 5, of a unique skull of a 



une transformation, un acheminement vers le mieux ; de meme certaines per- 

 sistances, celles des coiips-dc-poiiig par exemple, indiquent simplement I'usage 

 prolonge d'un bon outil. 



" Plus tard, lorsque j'aborderai I'etude des nombreuses formes de silex re- 

 cueillies depuis six ans, il me faudra decrire des pointes avec des crans, et 

 j'espere que ce mot ne fera pas naitre chez les archeologues etrangers I'idee 

 d'introduire a La Quina du Solutreen superieur." 



* Repartition des ossements humains trouves dans le gisement mousterien de 

 La Quina. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Vol. 155, pp. 982-983, 1912. 



' A propos de la decouverte de I'homme fossile de la Quina. Rev. etudes an- 

 ciennes, Bord., Vol. 14, pp. 61-64, i pi., 1912. 



'"' A propos de la robusticite du maxillaire infericur de I'homme Neanderthalien. 

 Bull. Soc. prehist. France, 8 pp., 1913, reprint. 



