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debris completely hid the body, thus preserving him for 

 future generations. When his friends returned and found 

 a heap of loose blocks instead of a live being they prob- 

 ably fled in superstitious terror. If the Aurignac race 

 buried their dead, why have not any more skeletons been 

 found? Even the Tasmanians had special burial grounds 

 for the ashes away from the camping grounds, and it is, 

 in my opinion, not very probable that the higher Aurignac 

 race buried their corpses in their living grounds (caves). 

 If the Aurignac race did bury their dead it would be more 

 probable to assume that they had special burial grounds. 

 On the whole, I think that all the circumstances point 

 more towards an accident than towards an intentional 

 burial. The discovery of the skeleton does certainly not 

 prove that the Aurignac race was in the habit of burying 

 their dead. 



3. COMPARISON OF THE TRONATTA WITH 

 THE ARCHAEOLITHIC IMPLEMENTS OF 

 EUROPE (i). 



The greatest authority on eolithic and archaeolithic 

 implements. Dr. Rutot, has by his strenuous work fully 

 cleared up the geological sequence of the different in- 

 dustries distinguished by him and others in Europe. In 

 the following table I give his classification in a somewhat 

 modified form, but it must be understood that the 

 sequence of the different industries has not been altered. 



^^> see from this table (pag. 9) that we know now two 

 tertiary, one pr?e-glacial, and twelve glacial industries. Of 

 these 15 industries only seven can be considered repre- 

 senting the archaeolithic stage, viz., the two tertiary, the 

 two pHocene, and the three lower quarternary industries. 

 Thanks to the eenerositv of Dr. Rutot and Professor Dr. 



(1) See also Rutot, Un grave probleme, Bull. See. Beige de 

 Geol. Pal. Hyd., vol. xxi., 1907. 



