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front of the cave, almost vertically below the entrance. It lay about 

 3 feet deep and no disturbance in the superimposed deposits was 

 noticeable. 



The human bones were uncovered with great care in the presence 

 of responsible witnesses, then covered again with earth and left in 

 situ for several months, though shown during this time to a number 

 of visitors. On August 8 they were exposed for Virchow, v. d. 

 Steinen, Klaatsch, and other scientific men, and finally, two days 



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Fig. 30.— The Le Moustier rock-shelter, and the position of the human skeleton. 



(After Hauser.) 



afterwards, in the presence of Professor Klaatsch, they were taken 

 with the utmost precautions from the deposits. 



A somewhat picturesque account of the discovery by Hauser will 

 be found in the 1909 volume of the Archiv fiir Anthropologic.' The 

 skeleton, it appears, lay on its side in a natural extended position, 

 with the right hand under the occiput, the left extended along the 

 body. About the body and among the bones were found 74 worked 

 flints, 10 of which were of a well-defined form. On the skull rested 

 a charred bone of Bos primigenius, and in the neighborhood of the 

 thorax lay a tooth of the same animal. Besides this, 45 other frag- 



' Klaatsch, H., and Hauser, O., Homo moustcricnsls Hauseri. Ein altdiluvialer 

 .Skelettfund ini Departement Dordogne und seine Zugehurigkeit zuni Ncander- 

 taltypus. Archiv f. Anthropologic, N. F., Vol. 7, 1909. 



