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THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
with abundance of flints, and the perforated shells, which 
probably ornamented his body in life, were close by. 
SOLUTREAN CULTURE 
STERILE LAYER 
UPPER AURIGNACIAN 
STERILE LAYER 
MIDDLE AURIGNACIAN 
STERILE LAYER 
"^^^ LOWER AURIGNACIAN 
~^^^^'JS^^ MOUSTERIAN 
HUMAN REMAINS 
BASE ROCK 
j<yiH Fig. 39.— The strata at the rock-shelter at Combe Capelle, showing the 
position of the human skeleton discovered by Herr Hauser. 
What is most important for our present inquiry is that 
the bottom stratum of all contained, not objects of the 
