XLIII 

 MORE ABOUT THE NEANDER MEN 



SINCE writing what precedes I have been able more 

 than once to gratify my keen desire to examine 

 the wonderful human skull from the Chapelle-aux-Saints 

 in the Correze (Central France). The skull has been 

 photographed, and an excellent figure of it is reproduced 

 in our Fig. 65. But it is one thing to look at a picture 

 of such a specimen, and another to take it into one's 

 hands and closely examine it. The skull is in the care 

 of my friend, Professor Marcelin Boule, who is at the 

 head of the great collection of remains of extinct animals 

 in the Jardin des Plantes. 



It has been treated by him with great skill so as to 

 render the bone firm and hard, whilst detached portions 

 have been fitted into place, so that it is fairly complete 

 (Fig. 65). The skull was found (together with many 

 bones of the skeleton of the same individual) by two 

 enthusiastic local archaeologists buried at such depth 

 and in such position in the cave known as the Chapelle- 

 aux-Saints as to leave no doubt as to its belonging to 

 one of a race of men contemporary with the mammoth 

 and hairy rhinoceros a race which inhabited Europe in 

 the great glacial period called by prehistorians " the 

 Moustierian period," which cannot be less than a hundred 

 thousand years behind us, and probably is more. The 



