MAN THE CAVE DWELLER 
definitely proved the Cro-Magnon race to be responsible 
for the remarkable artistic development of the Upper 
Paleolithic Period. The man’s height was estimated at 
five feet three inches, the woman’s at two inches less. 
THE SOLUTREAN Epocu 
The Solutrean epoch was shorter by probably 1,000 
years than the Magdalenian, which it immediately pre- 
ceded in parts of western and central Europe. The geo- 
graphical distribution of its peculiar culture suggests that 
the latter came from the east, perhaps from the plains of 
Russia and western Siberia. The forms of its art and its 
implements, rather than the skeletal remains of man 
himself, distinguish the period. Among the very few 
skeletons which may be attributed with some certainty 
to the Solutrean epoch are the following: 
At Crot-du-Charnier, in the commune of Solutré itself, 
Ducrost found, at a depth of some five feet, an oval hearth 
measuring about fifteen by ten feet, bounded by flag- 
stones. Within this inclosure he discerned the skeleton 
of a male, under the bones of whose right hand were two 
fine “‘laurel-leaf” points, the special flint implements which 
characterize the Solutrean. Near by lay several carvings 
and outside the flagstones great quantities of cold-period 
animal bones. Numerous other sepultures have been 
found near this site, but many of them seem to belong to 
later times. 
At Klause, near Neu-EFssing, in Bavaria, Obermaier 
found many Solutrean artifacts and, amid a mass of 
breccia composed of fragments of mammoth tusks, a 
human skeleton of a male about thirty years old, attrib- 
uted to that stage. A mass of powdered ocher completely 
surrounded it. 
Among other skeletal remains usually attributed to the 
Solutrean epoch are those from Brix, in Bohemia, and 
from Briinn, in Moravia. These indicate the existence 
in central Europe of a narrow-headed race which, how- 
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