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small open space between it and the roof, the opening to which had been closed by heaping up the Palæolithic débris; so that the interment could have taken place long after the shelter had ceased to be inhabited.

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Fig. 33.—Side view of the Skull of the "old man of Cro-Magnon." (Religuiæ Aquitanicæ.)

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Fig. 34.—Front view of the Skull of the "old man of Cro-Magnon." (Ibid.)

At the time the grave-goods were also supposed to be in keeping with burials of the early Neolithic period; but this objection is no longer tenable since the

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