MAN THE CAVE DWELLER 
according to the custom of the time. Ornaments and 
artifacts, evidently intended by their friends as provision 
for the future life, accompanied the skeletons, and some 
of the bones found were stained with red ocher. 
At the base of the Aurignacian deposits of Grimaldi, 
and dating apparently from the very beginning of that 
Fic. 15. Profile and full-face views of the skull of the Grimaldi woman. After 
Keith 
epoch, were found two skeletons which have aroused 
great interest among prehistorians. For they have been 
held to indicate the existence at that time in this part of 
Europe of representatives of a race which was neither 
that of Neanderthal nor that of Cro-Magnon. The 
skeletons belonged to a youth and a woman, both of rather 
short stature (Plate 25), and they present traits which 
have been interpreted as Negroid in character. It will be 
remembered that the Cro-Magnon race, with its Aurigna- 
cian culture, is supposed to have entered Europe from 
Asia by way of northern Africa and the old land-bridges 
across to Italy. Now in recent years there are coming 
to light all over Africa remains of a type of art, consisting 
mainly of engravings and paintings of animals, which in 
many ways recall the remarkable cave art of the Upper 
Paleolithic in Europe. 
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