Aurignac
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The cavern Trou de Frontal was a place of burial, and similar to the cave of Aurignac.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
In it were found the human remains, it was estimated, of seventeen individuals, which were afterwards buried formally by the order of the mayor of Aurignac.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
The works of art of the stone period found there indicate considerable progress in skill beyond that attested by the objects found in the Aurignac grotto.
From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell
Near the town of Aurignac, France, a workman named Bonnemaison, in the year 1852, accidently discovered a cave containing the remains of seventeen human skeletons.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
At Aurignac, in the cave of L'HOMME MORT, in the Trou du Frontal, broken bones and fragments of charcoal bear witness to the repast.
From Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by N. D'Anvers
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