MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
C. A stratum 15 cm. (6 in.) thick, strongly colored red 
and containing many flint implements, rejects of stone 
industry, angular fragments of limestone, bits of charcoal, 
and débris of mammoth tusks. This layer formed a hard 
crust resistant to the hammer and covered the human 
skeletons. 
The animal remains found in the hard layer C that 
overlay the two human skeletons were: 
Woolly rhinoceros Mammoth 
Horse Hare 
Wild boar Cave bear 
Stag Badger 
Wapiti (?) ~ Marten (Weasel?) 
Giant deer Fox 
Reindeer Wolf (Dog) 
Sheep Cave hyena 
Wild bull Cave lion 
Extinct bison Wild cat 
D. Yellow calcareous clay and rubbish, passing to a 
tufa of the same nature as that in layer B. Thickness 
15 cm. (6 in.), uneven. At base a streak of charcoal. 
E. The human skeletons and the worked flints. 
F. Brown clay, in places black, inclosing angular pebbles 
of limestone, numerous animal bones, and worked flints. 
The animal remains encountered at the level of the 
skeletons, or lower than these, comprised the following: 
Woolly rhinoceros (abundant) Wild bull (rather abundant) 
Horse (very abundant) Mammoth (common) 
Stag (rare) Cave bear (rare) 
Reindeer (very rare) Badger (rare) 
Cave hyena (abundant) 
There were, therefore, distinguishable, aside from the 
surface material, three distinct fossil-bearing layers, 
namely: 
B. This contained bones of the mammoth and deer; 
also some Mousterianlike flint implements of refined and 
rather peculiar type. 
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