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The most remarkable skull and skeleton of Mousterian age is that 

 (Fig. 16) found by the Abbes J. and A. Bouyssonie and L. Bardon in 

 the cavern of La Chapelle-aux-Saints (Correze) in 1908, associated with 

 stone implements and remains of the reindeer, urus, ibex and woolly 

 rhinoceros. The cranium is dolichocephalic, with ]M-ominent supra- 



FiG. 17. — Xeanderthal tnan 



Reconstruction of the head of Homo neaiitJertlialensis by Charles I{. Kniirht under the 



direction of the author. 1910. 



orbital processes and relatively short and broad nose, weak lower jaw, 

 lacking the prominent chin process. These characters, as well as the 

 posterior position of the foramen magnum and the form of the palate, 

 are distinctly simian or pro-human.^® 



Postglacial Stage — Coxtixuatiox of Uppkk Pal.foltthic, 

 Eeixdeer or Cave Period 



climate 



For a long period the fauna of Postglacial time in Europe remained 

 practically the same, namely, during the Mousterian, Aurignacian, Solu- 

 trean and Magdalenian culture periods. The cold fauna is shown both 

 in the animal remains and in the art, which is so characteristic of 

 Aurignacian and Magdalenian times. 



As the "Lower Rodent** layer of Mousterian times is referred to the 

 Second Maximum of the Fourth glacialion and the period of most intense 



^^^ BouLE. yi. : "LHomme Fossile de la Chapelle-aux-Saints." L'AnthropoI.. Vol. XIX, 

 pp. 519-52.".. 1909. 



