576 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 
and lower, middle, and upper Aurignacian. It was between the 
Acheulian and Mousterian deposits and at a depth of 3 meters that 
an almost complete human skeleton was found. Although in part 
crushed by the enormous weight of earth above, all the bones were 
in place with the exception of those of the right foot and hand, which 
had been displaced and partially destroyed, probably by some carni- 
vore or rodent. The skeleton has been removed intact with care and, 
it is hoped, will soon be published in detail. Unlike the case of La 
Chapelle-aux-Saints, this was not an interment. The body was 
placed at one corner of the shelter and covered with branches or 
skins, perhaps a little earth, or all three of these combined. About 
the head and shoulders were three stones that might have served as 
weights. Gradually it was covered deeper and deeper by débris° 
from the overhanging rocks and that left by succeeding Aurignacian 
populations. Its stratigraphic position is clearly defined. A more 
extended report as to its somatological characters is awaited with 
much interest. It should not only confirm but also supplement exist- 
ing data bearing on the osteology of Homo primigenius, as did the 
remains from La Chapelle-aux-Saints. 
Thanks to persistent, painstaking, systematic explorations, the 
Dordogne seems destined to maintain its lead in matters paleolithic. 
Herr O. Hauser who made the important discovery of Homo mous- 
teriensis at Le Moustier in 1908 has been also rewarded with a rich 
harvest in 1909. At Combe-Capelle, near Montferrand-Périgord, he 
found on August 26 an adult male skeleton of Aurignacian age. The 
type, however, is of a higher order than that of his Homo mousterien- 
sis, the difference being greater than might be inferred from its strati- 
graphic position. The remains had been interred, the pit being sunk 
into a deposit of Mousterian age. The stone implements found with 
the skeleton about the head, arms, knees, and feet are Aurignacian. 
For this reason Klaatsch suggests the name Homo aurignacensis 
hauseri. A number of snail shells were also deposited with the dead, 
probably as ornaments. As was the case the previous year at Le 
Moustier, Professor’ Klaatsch, of Breslau, was called to Combe- 
Capelle to superintend the removal of the skeleton (pls. 16, 17). 
Klaatsch classes Homo aurignacensis hauseri with the human re- 
mains from Briinn (Mahren) and Galley Hill, near London. All 
three skulls are long and narrow, markedly dolichocephalic. In so far 
as the fragmentary condition of the Galley Hill skeleton will admit 
of comparison the other skeletal parts agree in type. Klaatsch also 
notes certain resemblances to the much later Magdalenian race, as 
represented by the skeleton found twenty years ago at Chancelade, 
also in the Dordogne» Although of rather short and powerful build, 
Klaatsch believes this Aurignacian race did not evolve directly from 
