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138 and were grouped about the head and feet. The race to which this fossil man belonged would appear to have occupied an intermediate position between the Neanderthal-Spy and Chancelade races, recalling in some respects the man of Galley Hill in Kent. (L'Homme Préhistorique, 1909, p. 341.)

Human Skeleton of Chapelle-aux-Saints.

In the month of August 1908, while MM. les Abbés A. and J. Bouyssonie et Bardon were excavating the small grotto of Chapelle-aux-Saints (Corrèze), in the valley of the Sourdoire, a tributary of the Dordogne, they came upon an artificial

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. hollow containing a human skeleton. The débris is described as purely Moustérien, and the skeleton lay under 12 to 16 inches of undisturbed archæological material. The grave measured 4 feet 8 inches in length, 3 feet 3 inches in breadth, and 1 foot in depth. The body was that of an aged man, about 5 feet 3 inches in height. It lay on the back with the head to the west, the legs bent upwards, the right hand flexed under the head, and the left extended. Around the body were bones of various animals broken for their marrow, together with a few flint weapons and bone pointers supposed to have been the remains of a funeral feast.

The skull (Fig. 41), though slightly damaged by the