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bank, that the body had been laid on its back, but 
turned slightly so as to lie on the left arm. Amongst 
the ribs, which had fallen out in a mass of brick 
earth, lay the lower jaw, showing that the head had 
been bent on the breast. The leg bone lay near the 
shoulder blade, showing that the lower limbs must have 
been flexed on the trunk. The body must have been 
in the flexed or contracted posture, for the extreme 
parts of the skeleton were less than 3 feet apart. 
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BUFF COLOURED 
BRICK EARTH 
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BUFF BRICK EARTH 
■570 m. 
Fig. 29. — A section of the strata at Hailing, showing the position of the skeleton. 
The dip in the second stratum, over the skeleton, marks the bed of a buried 
stream. 
As they proceeded in their investigation an extremely im- 
portant discovery was made — one which reminds us of the 
buried Palaeolithic hearths discovered in the open country 
at Solutre. In another part of the trench, a long black 
stratum was exposed between the deposit in which the 
skeleton lay, the fifth layer, and the overlying or fourth 
deposit (fig. 29). In the black intermediate zone, remains 
of ancient hearths abounded — charcoal, flints splintered by 
heat — "pot-boilers," chipped flints, worked implements, 
bones of animals. It was clear, from this discovery, that 
an old land surface was represented by the black zone 
