48 THE DATING OF EARLY HUMAN REMAINS.
conditions. The body was placed upon an earlier Acheulean
deposit, and covered by Mousterian, and over those Aurignacian,
accumulations.14
Thus we have now a mass of cumulative evidence, of a well-
defined extinct race-type of mankind, frequently associated with
the Mousterian epoch, while in several cases the remains were
interred in the contracted position with weapons of the chase
for use in the "Happy Hunting Grounds" beyond the grave.
THE NEGROID RACE OF GRIMALDI.
Two skeletons presenting important differences from the
Neanderthal type, but belonging to the late Mousterian or Early
Aurignacian epochs, have been found in the deeper strata of
the Grotte des Enfants at Mentone. Both were interments.
and were subsequently covered by some 24 feet of later palaeo-
lithic accumulations.15 The negroid affinities of the skulls
have been disputed by Dr. Duckworth, and may not be strictly
justified, but to the casual observer at least the term is descrip-
tive of their general appearance. Professor Sollas, on the other
hand, emphasises the importance of these negroid characters,
and considers that they point to close racial affinity with the
Bushman of South Africa.
MODERN MAN FROM LATE PALAEOLITHIC DEPOSITS.
The dating of human remains from Palaeolithic deposits,
where these remains belong to the race types of modern man,
is a problem which presents peculiar difficulties. It seems to
me that what we have already noted of the Neanderthal race,
particularly in the evidences of funeral ceremony, should pre-
pare us for the acceptance of interments of a higher race type
in the men who executed the marvellous works of art of the
Later Palaeolithic age.
Many fragmentary human remains have been found in the
Later Palaeolithic deposits under the same circumstances as
the remains of the wild animals. But it is, of course, the more
perfect skeletons which give us the fullest and the best informa-
tion, and these with one or two possible exceptions are certainly
interments. In the case of Mousterian interments the human
remains belong to an extinct race type of mankind, and this fur-
14 L. Capitan, Revue Scientifique, T. xlviii., 1910, p 193, A. Keith, Ancient Types of
Man, 1911. p. 114.
15 R. Verneau, Les Grottes de Grimaldi, Monaco, 1906.