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terian; 3. Mousterian with Audi forms and few conps-dc-poing ; 2. 

 Mousterian with some Audi forms and many coups-de-poing; i. 

 Some Audi forms, no coups-dc-pomg (Burkitt, 1921, p. 93). But 

 perhaps the l^est comprehensive statement on this subject is that of 

 MacCurdy, one of the oldest and most cautious students of prehistory. 

 In his Human Origins, 1924. vol. i, pp. 161-2, we read: " In certain 

 French stations, a transition from the Mousterian to the Lower Aurig- 

 nacian occurs, as for example, at Le Moustier (Dordogne), La 

 Verriere (Gironde), and especially at the rock-shelter of Audi in the 

 village of Les Eyzies. In comparison with Mousterian points, those 

 of Audi are more slender and are slightly recurved. The convex 

 margin is rendered blunt by retouching so as not to injure the hand 

 while using the opposite margin for cutting or other purposes. Such 

 a tool, as much a knife, or scraper, as a point, bridges the gap between 

 the Mousterian point or double scraper and the Lower Aurignacian 

 blades of the Chatelperron type. At Audi it is associated with small 

 cleavers and disks, scrapers, spoke-shaves, asymmetric points, and 

 scratchers. The Grotte des Fees at Chatelperron, though distinctly 

 Aurignacian, is so closely related to the transition stage that the 

 chronologic difference must be small. An intermediate stage is recog- 

 nizable at La Ferrassie (Dordogne)." 



The Audi culture is still somewhat controversial, Abbe Breuil (re- 

 cent letter to the writer) regarding it as " degenerate Mousterian." 

 Notwithstanding this, the impression is growing that the more the 

 initial and the terminal stages of the Mousterian industry are becom- 

 ing known, together with the late Acheulian and the earliest Aurig- 

 nacian, the less abrupt and striking appear their differences and the 

 greater grows the feeling that they are not absolutely separated. Some 

 interesting things in this connection have been encountered at Spy 

 as well as at Krapina, and others are now being gathered by Absolon 

 in Moravia. 



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The sponsors of the view that Aurignacian man was a man of 

 different and superior species to the man of the Mousterian period, 

 conceive him generally as an invader who came from somewhere 

 outside the Neanderthal area, overwhelmed the established less 

 capable si>ecies, brought about its rapid annihilation, and replaced 

 it wholly, over all the great domain over which it once extended. 

 These ideas, however, are never expressed very clearly, and little 

 thought is given to the incongruities they involve. 

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