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natural means. Unfortunately, the skull was broken 
beyond repair, but other parts of the skeleton were fairly 
complete, every bone being marked by those peculiar 
characters which denote, as Professor Capitan recognised, 
the Neanderthal race. In the same stratum, another 
skeleton showing Neanderthal characters was discovered 
in the following year, 1910. Thus, almost in the same 
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Fig. 40. — Section of the strata at La Ferrassie. 
month, and less than twenty miles apart, two ancient 
human skeletons were discovered, one at La Ferrassie 
and one at Combe Capelle. The last named was found 
in the oldest Aurignacian stratum, and belonged to a man 
akin to modern races, while the skeleton found at La 
Ferrassie, in the Mousterian stratum, was of a race or 
type totally different from any human race now living. 
They were found folded down between untorn and 
undamaged pages of the records which Nature makes of 
the earth's history. As will be seen by a comparison 
