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justifies the restored sketch given in fig. 13a. The body had been 
buried in a contracted posture in a hollow of the rock-floor, and 
the overlying earth contained numerous broken bones of the 
woolly rhinoceros, bison, reindeer, and other animals, besides flint 
implements of the characteristic Mousterian shape. The leg of 
a bison close to the human skeleton must have been buried with 
the flesh on it, and may have been intended as food for the 
departed spirit. As shown by the plaster cast in Table-case 1, 
Fig. 13. — Diagrammatic restoration of skeleton of Neanderthal man (A) com- 
pared with skeleton of existing Australian man (B). (After M. Boule.) 
[In fig. A the shoulder-blade is omitted.] 
the skull, with its massive brow-ridges, is essentially complete 
(fig. 4b, p. 14). The bone of the brain-case is moderately thick, 
the parietal thickness being from 6 to 8 mm., and the skull is 
shaped behind like a depressed chignon. The size of the 
brain-cavity (about 1,626 cubic centimetres) is greater than that 
of the average modern European, but the impression of the brain 
suggests that it may have been inferior in quality. As the left 
cerebral hemisphere is the larger, the man was probably right- 
