WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN — HRDLICKA 255 



The body lay apparently on its back, with the head to the westward. 

 The head reposed against the wall of the fossa in one corner, and was 

 surrounded by stones. The left arm was extended, the right probably 

 bent so that the hand was applied to or lay near the head. The lower 

 limbs were flexed. Above the head were found three or four large 

 flat fragments of long bones of animals, and somewhat higher there 

 lay, still in their natural relation, the foot bones of a large bovid. 

 suggesting that the whole foot of the animal may have been placed 

 in that position, perhaps as an offering to the dead. About the body 

 in the fossa were numerous flakes of quartz and flint, some fragments 

 of ochre, broken animal bones, etc., much as in the rest of the arche- 

 ological stratum above the skeleton. To the right of the fossa contain- 

 ing the skeleton were many large fragments of various animal bones, 

 jaws and vertebrae of the reindeer, and vertebrae of a large bovid, 

 with some very well made implements of flint. The last-named verte- 

 brae and the flint implements were covered by two large slabs of 

 stone ; and above these slabs, at the side wall of the cave, the earth 

 showed the effects of fire ; but it was not possible to determine 

 whether this was of the same date as the deposits or the human burial 

 beneath. There was no indication that the deposits in the cave had 

 been moved in any way since the burial of the human body. 



On taking out the human bones it was found that, through decay 

 or other causes, many were defective, and some parts of the human 

 skeleton were lost. What remained comprises the skull, almost com- 

 plete, with the lower jaw ; 21 vertebrae or pieces of same ; 20 ribs or 

 their fragments ; an incomplete left clavicle ; the two humeri, almost 

 complete ; the two radii and the two ulnae, all more or less defective; 

 a few bones of the hands and feet ; portions of the pelvic bones, 

 fragments of the right femur (from which it is possible to recon- 

 struct the bone) and the lower half of the left femur ; the two patellae, 

 and parts of the tibiae. The state of preservation of the specimens 

 is exactly like that of the animal bones recovered from the deposits 

 about the burial fossa. They are ferruginous in color, heavier than any 

 corresponding recent human bones and very perceptibly mineralized. 



Through the kindness of Prof. Uoule the writer was enabled in 1912 

 and again in 1923 and 1927 to see the originals of the Chapelle-aux- 

 Saints skeleton. It was not possible to undertake any personal detailed 

 study on the bones, but even brief examinations were sufficient to im- 

 press one deeply, particularly in the case of the .skull, with the great 

 scientific value of the remains. They represent another precious addi- 

 tion to the rapidly augmenting material evidence of the highly inter- 

 esting type of ancient man. Homo ncandcrtJialcnsis. 



