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MOUSTERIAN , the name given by the See also:

French anthropologist G. de See also:

MORTILLET, LOUIS LAURENT GABRIEL DE (1821-1898)

Mortillet to the second See also:

EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop)

epoch of the See also:

QUATERNARY

Quaternary See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

Age, and to the earliest in his See also:

SYSTEM

system of See also:

cave-See also:

CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology. It is so named from a cave (Le Moustier), on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the Vezere, an affluent of the See also:

DORDOGNE

Dordogne, above See also:

LES

Les Eyzies and Tayac, which has yielded typical See also:

PALAEOLITHIC (Gr. iraXates, old, and )tWBor, stone)

palaeolithic implements. The epoch was characterized by See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold wet See also:

CLIMATE

climate, by the supposed existenceof See also:

Man of the Olom type, that is, nearly as dolichocephalous as the See also:

NEANDERTHAL

Neanderthal type, but with superciliary ridges See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat, and frontal bones high, and by the occurrence of the See also:

MUSK (Med. Lat. muscus, late Gr. µbvXos, possibly Pers. mushk, from Sansk. mushka, the scrotum)

musk-ox, the See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse, the cave-See also:

bear, See also:

RHINOCEROS

Rhinoceros tichorhinus and the See also:

mammoth. The typical implements are See also:

flint points or See also:

SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)

spear-heads, See also:

LEFT

left smooth and flat on one See also:

side, as struck from the cave, pointed and edged from the other side; a scraper treated in the same way, but with edge rather upon the side than at the end, as in the succeeding Solutrian and See also:

MADELENIAN

Madelenian epochs. See also:

RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

Relics of the Mousterian age have been also found in See also:

Belgium, See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

Germany, Bohemia and southern See also:

England, some of the " finds " including human remains.

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