MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
there were vast quantities, reaching into the hundreds 
of thousands; yet every flint and every fragment has 
passed through Doctor Martin’s hands and been examined 
by him, the only assistance he has had outside of labor 
being that furnished by members of his own family. And 
all this work at his personal expense. As Doctor Hrdligka 
says, may prehistory have more Henri Martins! 
The excavations at La Quina have been visited by prob- 
ably more prehistorians than has any other site of primi- 
tive man, aside from those in the Vézére valley. The 
“station” is easily accessible and relatively easily worked, 
though all the work must be done in the open and is made 
difficult by the great quantities of fallen rock and débris 
from what were probably in olden times more or less over- 
hanging rock-shelters. 
The quantity of archeological material and of animal 
bones recovered from La Quina is such that it has sup- 
plied many European and even some American museums. 
The archeological material is clearly Mousterian, and 
in general shows much differentiation as well as improve- 
ment from below upwards; but the determination of 
definite strata, except in the case of the very lowest one, 
seems difficult. There was evidently a very long-con- 
tinued occupation attended with local developments. 
The fauna of the Mousterian layers of La Quina, as 
determined by Doctor Martin, consists essentially of the 
following forms: 
Mammoth (scarce) Cave bear 
Horse Wolf 
Wild boar Hyena 
Reindeer A large feline 
Deer (large) Blue fox 
Marmot Small rodents 
Birds (including vulture) 
It is throughout a cold fauna; there are no traces, even 
in or beneath the lowest cultural layer, of animals of a 
warm period. 
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