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Abstract

IN this volume Dr. Martin describes the- results of the investigations which he has carried out on the Mousterian site of La Quina (Charente) since 1905. His discoveries included a large number of mammalian remains and of typical implements as well as objects of bone, which at the time of discovery constituted the first evidence of the use of bone in the Mousterian age. Much of this material has formed the subject of communications to French scientific societies, and the general conclusions are well known; but anthropologists will welcome this careful and detailed study of the evidence as a whole. The author, by inference, does much to throw light upon the habits of Mousterian man, and it is noteworthy that he is inclined to regard a certain condition of the equine teeth as evidence for domestication. His most important contribution to anthropological science however, was the discovery in 1911 of the human skeletal remains now known as the La Quina man., and in 1915 of the cranium of a child aged eight, both falling within the Neanderthal group. Dr. Martin, on the ground of inferiority to type in certain respects, is disposed to regard the former as female.