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THE TROGLODYTES. 



man is a hollow similar to that sometimes produced in our da^ by a 

 spent ball. It is evidently the result of an old wound received, perhaps, 

 in the chase; perhaps in war; but a human hand, armed with a flint 

 instrument, must have produced a long, deep aperture which appears 



Fig. 26. 



Fiff. 24. 



Fitr. 25. 



mm 



Fi^ 34. — Flattened tibia of the old man of CromagEon. 

 26.— Fibula of the same. 



Fig. 25. — Femur of the same in profile. Fig. 



in the skull of the woman ; the width of the opening shows that the brain 

 must have been injured, but still the victim was not killed instantly by 

 the blow. The vascularization of the bone and the internal surface of 

 the skull show that she survived about fifteen days. (See Figs. 27 and 28.) 

 This shameful murder of a woman is not to the credit of the people of 

 Cromagnon. The study of the industries of these people has already 

 shown us that their social condition was not above that of a savage tribe, 

 and an examination of their skulls confirms this opinion. With them 

 the sutures of the anterior cranial region are very simple, while those 

 of the posterior region are quite complicated. Besides, the former have 

 a decided tendency to close long before the latter, two characteristics 

 always observed in races or individuals leading an entirely material life. 

 The troglodytes of Cromagnon were then savages, but savages of intel- 



