Combe Capelle

a grotto in the department of Dordogne, France, where a skeleton of ancient man was found in 1909 together with Upper Paleolithic stone tools and animal bones. The Combe Capelle man has been tentatively assigned to Middle Wurmian times and his age has been estimated at 30,000–35,000 years. He is characterized by short stature (160 cm), a greatly elongated skull, and a broad, only slightly protruding nose (some scientists see this as a sign of negroidness). The German anthropologist H. Klaatsch, who first described the Combe Capelle man, classified him, without apparent reason, as a separate species of Aurignacian man. The Combe Capelle man is one of the variants of the Upper Paleolithic population of western Europe.

REFERENCE

Proiskhozhdenie cheloveka i drevnee rasselenie chelovechestva. Moscow, 1951. (Tr. In-ta etnografii AN SSSR, vol. 16.)

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