MOUSTERIAN PERIOD ,ii 
Aurignacian culture, but of the preceding or Mousterian 
civilisation. Indeed, one of the implements which lay 
near the skeleton, and was probably interred with the 
body, w^as a Mousterian " point " — a small, wedge-shaped, 
flint implement or scraper. 
On the evidence observed and recorded by Herr 
Hauser,^ we must regard the man found at Combe Capelle 
as representative of a native of the Dordogne about 
the beginning of the Aurignacian period. The type is 
familiar to us — it is a variant of the modern-looking, 
narrow-headed men of the Aurignacian period, a type 
which would excite no comment, if dressed in modern 
garb, in any assemblage of modern Europeans. The 
head is merely a variety of the river-bed type."' The 
length of the skull, 198 mm., is 6 mm. longer than the 
Langwith specimen ; its width is only 130 mm. — 5 
mm. narrower. The narrowness of the head is very 
apparent when a comparison is made of the width and 
length — the width is only 657 per cent, of the length, a 
narrower head than even that found at Langwith. The 
vault of the skull is well sprung, its height above the 
ear-holes being 120 mm. The brain capacity is about 
1440 c.c. — slightly under the modern average. The 
facial features are those we are familiar with to-day. 
The size of the teeth and development of the palate are 
average, the length of the palate being 51 mm. ; its 
width at the second molars, 64 mm. (see fig. ^6, p. 97). 
The three molar teeth, measured along the line of the 
crowns, are 2 8-5 mm. for the upper, 34 mm. for the 
lower — rather more than is usual in modern dentitions. 
He was a man of small stature, unlike the Cromagnon 
type, also of the Aurignacian period, but in this respect 
like the river-bed people. The length of his thigh bone 
is only 425 mm. ; his stature, a little over 1550 mm. 
(5 feet 2 inches). Thus, we see, at the close of the 
Mousterian period and at the beginning of the Aurignacian 
* Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 1910, vol. i. p. 273. 
2 F'or full description of skeleton, see Professor Klaatsch's account, 
Praehistorische Zeiischrifi, 1910, vol. i. p. 285. 
