WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN HRDLICKA II3 



All this indicates that the cave had been used for a long time by some 

 group of native population as a habitation, or at least as a place where 

 parts of animals were brought, cooked or roasted, and eaten. Among 

 the bones the writer found a few flakes, and a piece of quartz that 

 may have been partly shaped by man. It had a good cutting edge 

 which would have been serviceable. The main bone cave may there- 

 fore confidently be characterized as a cave of prolonged occasional 

 or permanent human habitation in some part of the past, perhaps 

 not very far distant. How far will depend on the identification of 

 the animal forms whose bones were left in the cave. Bones from the 

 outer part of the cave identified previously were, we have seen, prac- 

 tically all of forms that are still living. 



The newly found human bones proceed from two skeletons ; the 

 arm bone is that of a strong adult male ; the parietal, rather thin, is 

 probably that of an adolescent. They apparently have no connection 

 with the " Rhodesian skull." But lying as they did among the broken 

 animal bones, and in the case of the humerus being fractured cross- 

 wise by a blow as was the rule with the animal bones, a suspicion 

 is aroused that they may have belonged to human beings who sufifered 

 the same fate as the animals. The new evidence throws no light either 

 upon the racial character or the antiquity of the remarkable cranium. 



The two new human fragments, the mammalian teeth and a se- 

 lection of the animal bones were deposited by the writer, together with 

 a quartz ball and the above mentioned stone, in the British Museum 

 (Natural History), South Kensington, so that they might be with the 

 Rhodesian skull and the other specimens collected previously. On 

 this occasion the writer was able once more to examine the Rhodesian 

 skull and also the other human bones that were received with the 

 skull. They arc: a portion of a separate upper jaw with two teeth; 

 a tibia; two parts of a male adult femur; one shaft of a female 

 adult ( ?) femur ; a large part of a right female (large notch) os coxae; 

 a large part of a male ilium (small notch) ; and one sacrum. Of these 

 the upper jaw, mineralized, is somewhat difl^erent in color from the 

 skull. While it is considerably heavier than normal, morphologically 

 it is in all ways like the jaw of a modern negro, with modern 

 teeth, and bears no resemblance to the corresponding part of the 

 Rhodesian skull. The tibia is nnich more reddish-brown than the 

 skull ; the female femur is light ochre-yellow ; the male femur pale to 

 blackish-brown with thick walls. One of the pelvic parts is near in 



