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Rh by any previous excavators. The skull was not then removed, but was left in situ till the 12th September, when the discoverer secured the assistance of Professor Klaatsch, well known as an expert in human palæontology. In the course of removing the bones, numerous perforated marine shells were observed in the vicinity of the head and neck, which evidently had served as some kind of ornament. The skeleton was that of a male subject, but its osteological characters were not those peculiar to the Neanderthal-Spy race. A lofty skull

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. 40. Front and side views of Homo Aurignacensis Hauseri. (After Hauser.).

and forehead at once indicated a higher type of humanity; but it is not on this account of less importance. To this, apparently novel race in the Dordogne, Professor Klaatsch has given the name Homo Aurignacensis Hauseri. The skull was extremely dolichocephalic, the face slightly prognathic, and the chin little developed (Fig. 40). A peculiarity of the skeleton was the relative shortness of the limbs, the forearms and legs proper being no longer than the humerus and femur. The body was dumpy and the thorax voluminous, and both these as well as the limbs indicated powerful muscular action. It had been deposited in Moustérien débris, but the associated relics were characteristic of the Aurignacien Age,