THE DATING OF EARLY HUMAN REMAINS. 51
fallen from the roof. A relic bed of the Magdalenian epoch
had accumulated above it. Under such exceptional circum-
stances as this, a complete skeleton may become naturally
buried.
Chancelade. This skeleton was found in the rock-shelter
of Raymonden in the commune of Chancelade, in 1888.21 It
was an interment, but covered by several successive relic-beds
of Magdalenian date.
Mentone. Very important further evidence regarding
interments of the Cro-Magnon race has come to light from the
researches in the Mentone caves carried out under the auspices
of the Prince of Monaco. These interments are associated with
a well characterized Aurignacian industry. There is no possibility
of doubting their Late Palaeolithic date, as they are covered by a
great thickness of Aurignacian relic beds, including hearth
sites with layers of charcoal, showing a perfect continuity in
their stratification.22
These remains, like a number of others of the Late Palaeolithic
period, were interred in a raddle of red ochre. This custom is
also found among modern savages, and it may be remembered
that a striking survival was noted during the exploration of the
Romano-British interment of the West Mersea barrow.28
Solutre. At this classic site Palaeolithic and Neolithic in-
terments appear to be mingled together, and it is a matter of
great difficulty to separate the one from the other.
In addition to this Mongoloid Cro-Magnon race other types
of modern man have been described, but they do not to my
mind stand upon such good evidence.
SUMMARY OF CONTINENTAL EVIDENCE.
For comparison with our English evidence the main points
that I wish to make clear from the above brief sketch of the
more notable discoveries upon the continent are as follows.
1. That the Neanderthal race of men of the Mousterian
epoch buried their dead with their implements by their side.
2. That the men of the later palaeolithic culture-stages
are of an entirely new type, and contrast strongly with the
Neanderthal race. They may be considered as the immediate
21 W. J. Sollas, Ancient Hunters, 2nd ed., p. 510,
22 R. Verneau, Les Grottes de Grimaldi, Monaco, 1906.
23 S. Hazzledine Warren, Essex Naturalist, 1914, vol. xvii., p. 261.