Mousterious

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  • Mousterian: a Neanderthal culture named after Le Moustier, a cave in France which has yielded implements of this culture. Several references to Neanderthal-like things in this passage--pelts, pigmaid hoagshead (ref the juvenile skull found at this site), short-shins, plodsfoot, brain pan.
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  • mouse: Latin musculus, muscle, is literally "little mouse"