MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
In the Crot-du-Charnier at Solutré, MM. Mayet, 
Depéret, and Arcelin found in 1923 three Aurignacian 
burials beneath the celebrated deposit of horse bones 
already mentioned. These included the remains of two 
tall males and one short female, the former resembling 
the tall old man found at Cro-Magnon. 
We can mention but one more of the many discoveries 
of Aurignacian remains, that made by the late Prince 
Albert of Monaco. In the year 1895, the Prince under- 
took the investigation of the caves of Grimaldi, sixty or 
seventy feet above sea level in the red rocks which rise 
from the sea a little east of Mentone. For his researches 
Prince Albert secured the help of the best talent of France, 
including such eminent men as Boule, Cartailhac, Ver- 
neau, and Villeneuve. They investigated no less than 
seven caves, one of which, the famous Grotte des Enfants, 
proved a veritable treasure house of Aurignacian remains. 
In excavating thirty-three feet of deposits, they revealed 
ten ancient floors of habitation. From the top down to 
the ninth level all were Aurignacian, yet evidently sep- 
arated from one another by long intervals of nonoccu- 
pancy, which suggests the long duration of the Aurigna- 
cian epoch. 
The upper strata disclosed the reindeer, but no mammoth 
or woolly rhinoceros, such as were found at more north- 
erly sites of the same period. Various extinct forms 
common in those ancient times, like the cave bear, cave 
lion, and cave hyena, were discovered. Toward the bot- 
tom, tropical animals—Merck’s rhinoceros, the hippopota- 
mus and the straight-tusked or “‘ancient’’ elephant— 
proved the existence in the early Aurignacian of an inter- 
lude of warm climate. In the lowest layer of all, some 
implements gave evidence of the Mousterian culture of 
Neanderthal man. 
The investigators found human remains in the second, 
third, eighth, and ninth levels, all probably interred in 
shallow graves under the floors of their dwelling sites, 
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