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between the Mousterians and Aurignacians— who should represent 

 two different species of man, one greatly superior to the other. 



An objection may here be raised to the effect that the number of 

 available, and especially of the more suitable, caves was limited and, 

 therefore, the same caves that once served the Neanderthalers had to 

 be used also by the shelter-needing Aurignacians ; but this point is 

 invalidated by the showing of the Solutreans and Magdalenians, who 

 were even more cave-dwellers than the Aurignacians, yet are found 

 collectively in less than one-fourth of the Mousterian caves. Another 

 point is, that it is not always the lower or earliest Aurignacian that 



SEQUENCE OF INDUSTRIES 



Mousterian Topped by: 



(No culture) 



Neolithic 



Magdalenian 



Solutrean 



"Paleolithic" 



Aurignacian 



Mousterian 



Mousterian Reposing on: 



Acheulian 



Chellean 



(No culture) 



Open Stations 



No. 



(34) 

 4 

 3 



2 

 I 



17 



(6i) 



(54) 



24 



5 



(25) 



Per cent 



(55-7) 

 6.6 



4 9 

 3-3 

 1.6 



27 9 



Rock-Shelters and Caves 



44-4 



9-3 



(46.3) 



No. 



(15) 



4 



9 



10 



2 

 39 



(79) 



Per cent 



(18.9) 



51 



II. 4 



12 .7 



2.5 



49-4 



(63) 



4 

 3 



(56^ 



6.3 



4.8 



(88.9) 



follows upon the Mousterian. But such a discord is common to all 

 the periods. It may mean a discontinuity, and may also mean a 

 persistence of any given culture in some localities longer than m 

 others. In both cases, however, it would speak against a sudden 

 general displacement of one culture. 



There is evidently much here, once more, to be explained by those 

 who conceive of Aurignacian man as very distinct from, and superior 

 to, the Mousterian, and as having suddenly replaced the latter. 



ART 



The Aurignacian period does not appear to come in full-fledged, 

 as is sometimes taken for granted, but to develop locally, both m 

 industry and art, from humbler beginnings (Breuil, Burkitt, Evans, 



