The fact that only seven Mousterian stations are known in all Germany, or eight if we include the site of the Neanderthal burial, may be accounted for by the relatively close proximity of the great Scandinavian glacier on the north, which was only 350 miles distant from the great Alpine glacier on the south. To the east were the plains of Bohemia and the vast lowland region stretching northeastward to the tundras and eastward to the steppes, through which came the great migrations of tundra and steppe life. [Illustration: FIG. 97. The seven Mousterian stations of Germany lay between the Scandinavian glacier (IV) on the north and the Alpine glacier (IV) on the south (dotted areas). They include the grottos of _Sirgenstein_, _Irpfelhöhle_, and _Räuberhöhle_, along the valley of the Danube; _Kartstein_ and _Buchenloch_, near the middle Rhine, and _Baumannshöhle_, south of Hanover; also the open loess station of _Mommenheim_. The Mousterian grotto of _Wildkirchli_, in Switzerland, lay within the limits of the Alpine ice-fields; and the burial at _Neanderthal_, near Düsseldorf, was probably of Mousterian age. After R. R. Schmidt, modified and redrawn.] GEOGRAPHIC AND CLIMATIC ENVIRONMENT OF THE NEANDERTHAL RACE Let us first glance at Dordogne. Among the stations of the early Mousterian industry we have seen that the Neanderthals in the valley of the Vézère, at La Micoque, were in the midst of a fauna chiefly composed of the bison and of the wild horse, the remains found in the hearths being almost exclusively of the latter animal.[AF] In the primitive Mousterian station of Combe-Capelle near by the fire-hearths yield remains of the bison but only a few of the horse.