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136 arm was folded under the cheek and the left extended. Near the left hand lay a pointed flint implement of the coup-de-poing type (6¾ inches long), beautifully chipped on both sides ; and a little further on a large scraper. Besides these implements there lay around the body no less than seventy-four flints more or less worked, the specific purpose of which was undetermined, and ten well-worked instruments of ordinary archæological types. The skeleton was that of a young man about 4 feet 10 inches in height, whose wisdom teeth had not yet been fully developed. The cranium (Fig. 39) is described as having the osteological characters of the Neanderthal and Spy skulls.

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FIG. 39. Skull of Homo Moustériensis Hauseri, side and front views. (After M. Hauser.).

The face was strongly prognathic and there was no chin. Bones of various animals, some of them being described as partially calcined, were close to the body. (From articles by M. Hauser and Dr. Klaatsch in L'Homme Préhistorique, January 1909.)

Homo Aurignacensis Hauseri.

Combe-Capelle, situated near the ancient town of Montferrand-du-Perigord (Dordogne), is the site of the discovery of another Palæolithic skeleton by M. O. Hauser. While excavating in archæological ground of the Aurignacien Age on the 26th August 1909, he exposed the upper portion of a human skull in a deposit which had not been disturbed