126 THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
The evidence from Jersey is thus in harmony with that 
obtained from the caves in France — the Europeans of the 
Mousterian period were people of the Neanderthal type. 
Further, we see that this peculiar human species reached 
the western seaboard of the Continent^ in Mousterian 
times. 
From Jersey we proceed to Belgium, where some most 
important discoveries of Neanderthal man have been 
made. In the Royal Natural History Museum at 
Brussels is preserved the famous specimen known as 
the Naulette mandible. Only the region of the chin 
and the left part of the body of the jaw remain — enough 
to tell us that it is from the face of a woman of the 
Neanderthal race. All the teeth had dropped from 
their sockets after death. The region of the. chin and 
the tooth sockets show those peculiar features which 
mark the Neanderthal species of man. The Trou de 
Naulette, in which this specimen was discovered in 1866, 
is one of a series of great limestone caves visited by the 
modern tourist as he passes up the valley of the Lesse, 
on his way to the Ardennes, in the eastern part of 
Belgium. Its exploration belongs to the early period, 
1 865-1 866, and was carried out by M. Edouard Dupont, 
aided by a grant from the Belgian Government. The 
strata on the floor reached a great depth ; the actual stratum 
in which the mandible was found lay 14 feet (4*50 m.) 
below the present surface. Remains of the mammoth, 
rhinoceros, bear, and reindeer occurred in the same 
horizon, and with them were found worked implements 
of the Mousterian culture. The Naulette jaw, like the 
Gibraltar skull, had to wait until the beginning of the 
twentieth century for its real nature to be recognised. 
Twenty years later than the exploration of the Naulette 
cave a party of explorers from the University of Liege — 
Marcel de Puydt, Julien Fraipont, and Max Lohest — 
made a discovery of the highest importance. The Lesse, 
' For a general account, see Prehistoric Man in the Chatmel Islands^ 
by J. Sinel, 1914. Another Jersey cave of Mousterian date is mentioned 
by Mr Sinel. 
