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156 river. Some flint scrapers and pointers, a round ball of limestone, and a few bones of ruminants and of the horse, showing rude workmanship, were also found in the same stratum ; but there were none of the finer worked objects characteristic of the upper Moustérien.

These different layers being in their original position, without having suffered any subsequent disturbance (remaniment), it is possible to assign the skeleton to the base of the

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FIG. 46. Site of La Quina before excavations..

middle Quaternary period. In consequence of having been subjected to a long process of maceration, the cranial bones became more or less displaced along the lines of their sutures, but Dr Martin thinks the skull can be easily reconstructed. So far as can be judged at present, it shows the anthropoid characters of the Neanderthal race in a higher degree than the other skulls of the Quaternary period. The superciliary ridge on the left is extremely thick and overhanging, a feature which is exaggerated by the lowness of the forehead behind it. The teeth are exceptionally large, especially the canines, as compared with those of modern races.

Little more can be said of this, the latest addition to the