MOUSTERIAN PERIOD 
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(% .39) = (0 a layer of soil, about a foot in depth, 
containing blocks of limestone detached from the face 
of the rock by exposure to wind, wet, and changes of 
temperature ; (2) a stratum, over a foot in depth, 
containing flints and other evidences of the Solutrean 
culture — the one preceding the Magdalenian, the latter 
being unrepresented at Combe Capelle. Then followed 
three strata belonging to various phases of the Aurignacian 
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Fig. 38. — A sketch map of the chief sites of prehistoric discovery in the 
region of the Dordogne, France. 
culture — the lower, the middle, and the upper — separated 
by two sterile deposits, showing that during two intervals 
the rock-shelter had been forsaken as a human habitation. 
At the bottom of the lowest Aurignacian stratum a 
human skeleton was found, with the clearest evidence 
that it had been buried. As was the custom in those 
times, the site selected for the grave was near the place 
of habitation. The position of the skeleton was much 
the same as at Hailing, the knees being bent and the 
thighs drawn up. He, the dead man, had been provided 
