THE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN BODY 331 



Sourdoire, there is a cave now known as the Cave of La 

 Chapelle-aux-Saints. It was here, on the above-mentioned 

 date, that the priests discovered the bones of a human skeleton 

 surrounded by unmistakable evidences of solemn burial. "The 

 body lay on its back, with the head to the westward, the latter 

 being surrounded by stones. . . . About the body were many 

 flakes of quartz and flint, some fragments of ochre, broken 

 animal bones, etc.'' (Hrdlicka.) Another token of burial is the 

 rectangular pit, in which the remains were found. It is sunk 

 to a depth of 30 to 40 centimeters in the floor of the cavern. 



"They (the remains) were covered," says Prof. G. G. Mac- 

 Curdy, "by a deposit intact 30 to 40 centimeters thick, con- 

 sisting of a magma of bone, of stone implements, and of clay. 

 The stone implements belong to a pure Mousterian industry. 

 While some pieces suggest a vague survival of Acheulian 

 implements {i.e. from the cool latter half of the Third Inter- 

 glacial period), others presage the coming of the Aurignacian 

 (close of last Glacial period). Directly over the human skull 

 were the foot bones, still in connection, of a bison — proof that 

 the piece had been placed there with the flesh still on, and 

 proof, too, that the deposit had not been disturbed. Two 

 hearths were noted also, and the fact that there were no imple- 

 ments of bone, the industry differing in this respect from that 

 of La Quina and Petit-Puymoyen (Charente), as well as at 

 Wildkirchli, Switzerland. 



"The human bones include the cranium and lower jaw 

 (broken, but the pieces nearly all present and easily replaced 

 in exact position), a few vertebrae and long bones, several 

 ribs, phalanges, and metacarpals,- clavicle, astragalus, calca- 

 neum, parts of scaphoid, ilium, and sacrum. The ensemble 

 denotes an individual of the male sex whose height was about 

 L60 meters. The condition of the sutures and of the jaws 

 proves the skull to be that of an old man. The cranium is 

 dolichocephalic, with an index of 75. It is said to be flatter 

 in the frontal region than those of Neanderthal and Spy." 

 (Loc. cit., p. 574.) 



