52 THE DATING OF EARLY HUMAN REMAINS. 
ancestors of modern man. It is significant that this change in 
race-type corresponds to an equally notable change in culture, 
with the development of an extraordinary artistic period. They 
attained a splendid physical development, were usually over 
six feet in height as contrasted with the cramped and stunted 
form of the Neanderthal race, and had a brain capacity exceeding 
the average of modern Europeans. 
3. That although modern man can thus be traced back 
into the later paloeolithic. stages, there is no suggestion at present 
that he can be traced back as far as the Mousterian epoch. 
THE CHEDDAR SKELETON. 
This skeleton found in Gough’s cavern occurred beneath the 
stalagmite forming the floor of the cave, 24 in a deposit yielding 
a characteristic late Palaeolithic or “ Cave Age ” flint industry. 
There can be little doubt that it is an interment, but as we have 
had abundant evidence for inferring, this does not show that 
it is not palaeolithic. So far as I can gather, not being an 
anatomist myself, the skull is indistinguishable from the ordinary 
Neolithic race-type of this country, and no special similarities 
to the Grimaldi, Combe Capelle, or Cro-Magnon race-types 
have been noted. I am afraid one cannot say more at present 
than that it is an interment of unknown date made in a palaeolithic 
deposit. One must hope that further research may bring more 
conclusive evidence to light. 
THE “RED LADY" OF PAVILAND. 
This skeleton (which has proved to be that of a man) was 
found by Dean Buckland in 1823 when exploring cave deposits 
containing extinct mammalia. 25 It was a red ochre burial 
associated with objects carved in mammoth ivory. The recent 
researches of Professor Sollas have shown that the deposit is 
Aurignacian, and that the human belongs to the Cro-Magnon 
type. 26 
The Paviland skeleton is a test case on the general principles 
of dating. We have to consider the cumulative evidences that 
it presents to us, as compared with the evidences from the 
French caves which we have already reviewed, as follows : (1) 
The Aurignacian date of the deposit, (2) the Aurignacian type 
24 H. K. Davies, Quar. Joiirn. Geol. Soc., 1904, vol. lx., p. 335. 
25 W. Buckland, Rcliquicv Diluviaucv. 1823, p. 82. 
26 W. J. Sollas, Jourii. R. Anllirof. Inst., vol. xliii, 1913, p. 337, 364, etc. 
