ANCIENT REMAINS OF MAN HRDLICKA, 



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lay about 3 feet deep and no disturbance in the superimposed deposits 

 was noticeable. 



The human bones were uncovered with great care in the presence 

 of responsible witnesses, then covered again with earth and left in 

 situ for several months, though shown during this time to a number 

 of visitors. In August they were exposed for Virchow, v. d. Steinen, 

 Klaatsch, and other scientific men, and finally, two days afterwards, 

 in the presence of Prof. Klaatsch, they were gathered from the 

 deposits. 



A somewhat picturesque account of the discovery by Hauser will 

 be found in the 1909 volume of the Archiv fiir Anthropologic.^ The 

 skeleton, it appears, lay on its side in a natural position, with the 



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Fig. 12.— The upper (A) and lowee (B) Le Moustiee caves and the position of the 

 SKELETON OF HoMO MOUSTEEiENSis. (After Klaatsc'h & Hauser.) 



right hand under the occiput, the left extended along the body. 

 About the body and among the bones were found seventy-four worked 

 flints, ten of which were of a well-defined form. On the skull rested 

 a charred bone of a Bos primigenius, and in the neighborhood of the 

 thorax lay a tooth of the same animal. Besides this, 45 other frag- 

 ments of animal bones were gathered in a close vicinity to the human 

 remains. 



1 Klaatsch, A., and O. Hauser. Homo mousteriensis Hauseri. Ein altdiluvialer Skelett- 

 t'und im Departement Dordogne und seine Zugehorigkeit zum Neandertaltypus. (Archiv f. 

 .4nthropologie, N. F., vol. 7, 1909.) 



