WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN HRDLICKA lOl 



fragments of limestone, bits of charcoal, and debris of mammoth 

 tusks. This layer formed a hard crust, resistant to the hammer, 

 and covered the human skeletons. 



The animal remains found in the hard layer, C, that overlaid the 

 two human skeletons were : 



Rhinoceros ticlwrinns Elcphas priiiiiijcuiiis 



Equns caballus Lcpus sp. 



Sxis scrofa Ursus spclacus 



Cervus claphns Meles taxtis 



Cervus canadensis? Mustela foina 



Cervus tncgaccros Canis vulpes 



Cervus iarandus Canis lupus} (faniiliaris?) 



Ovis aries ? Hyaena spelaea 



Bos primigcnius Felis spelaea 



Bos priscus Eclis catus 



D. Yellow calcareous clay and rubbish (comp. p. 692 Fraiijont and 

 Lohest report), passing to a tufa of the same nature as that in layer 

 B. Thickness 15 cm. (6 ins.) uneven; at base a streak of charcoal. 



E. The human skeletons and worked flints. 



F. Brown clay, in places black, enclosing angular pebbles of lime- 

 stone, numerous animal bones and worked flints. 



The animal remains encountered at the level of the skeletons or 

 lower than these, comprised the following: 



Rhinoceros tichorinus (abundant) Elcphas primigenius (comn:on) 



Equus caballus (very abundant) Vrsus spclacus (rare) 



Cervus claphus (rare) Meles taxus (rare) 



Cervus tarandus (very rare) Hyaena spelaea (abundant) 

 Bos primigenius (fairly abundant) 



Aside from the surface material, three distinct fossil bearing layers 

 were therefore distinguishable, namely : 



B. This contained bones of the mammoth and deer; also some 

 Mousterian-like flint implements of refined and rather peculiar type. 



C. This stratum, with the underlying few inches of earth, covered 

 the human skeletons. Contents : Bones of many Quaternary animals ; 

 abundance of flint blades. Mousterian points, and other flint imple- 

 ments, in general of less refined make than those of layer B ; also 

 implements of bone and ivory. Among the bones were needles, awls, 

 beads, and pendants, and a number of the bones were decorated with 

 linear designs. Some of the bone pendants had evidently once been 

 colored red. 



D. to F. The stratum ol the two human skeletons. Gave also some 

 bones of Quaternary animals, and some stone implements of Mous- 

 terian type but inferior in workmanship to those from the layers 

 above. The human remains, the authors thought, were not burials 



