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bone instruments that were'found beside it, and we come to the 

 skeletons discovered in cave No. 5 by M. Bonfils, curator of the 

 Mentone Museum, in February of 1884. Again three were found 

 together. Owing to the stupidity and jealousy of the actual 

 owner of the land, an Italian peasant of the name of Abbo, they 

 were much broken ; but neither of these skulls, which M. Bonfils 

 has shown to us, seems to be quite of the same formation as those 

 of 189'i, though the peculiar, somewhat quadrangular shape of 



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Photograph of the Palaeolithic Skeleton discovered in the Fifth Cave in the Ro- 

 ckers Rouges, near Mentone, on Janiaky 12, 1894. Reproduced by the kind per- 

 mission of M. Bertraud, Mentone. 



the orbital cavities, turning up at the outer corners, is very simi- 

 lar. Prof. Boyd Dawkins believed these 1884 skeletons to be of 

 "doubtful antiquity." They, however, appear more ancient than 

 those found in 1873 ; and the male skeleton was of gigantic size, 

 being six feet nine and a half inches in height, from top of head 

 to heel, according to M. Bonfils. The latter also discovered with 



marks " devait etre portt; suspendu ;ui cou comme insigne. II ue porte aucun dessin, ni 

 gravure, ni entaille'' ("was probably worn suspended from the neck as an insignium. It 

 bears no drawing, or engraving, or carving"). We may liere add that if what he here de- 

 scribes is in any way like what we have referred to under the skeleton of 1892, it is prob- 

 ably a roughly formed totem for veneration. 



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