WHOLE VOL. SKELETAL REMAINS OF EARLY MAN HRDLICKA 269 



erably larger number of large fragments of animal bones than were 

 found elsewhere. A piece of a bone lying just above the skeleton 

 shows a series of fine intentional gravings, reminding one of the 

 graved bones of the Aurignacian layers. The accumulations about the 

 skeleton contained also a large number of very well worked flints of 

 the Mousterian type. Such flints were found above, about, and even 

 beneath the skeleton, those beneath being mingled with flints showing 

 Acheulian industry. 



The work uncovered a whole skeleton, in position, although nu- 

 merous parts, particularly of the thorax and the spine, were destroyed 

 by decay or damaged by the pressure of the superimposed deposits. 

 The skeleton lay on its back, slightly inclined to the left, and in a con- 

 tracted position, with the legs bent against the thighs and the thighs 

 half flexed upon the body, the left arm extended by the side, the 

 right flexed. The skull lay on its left side, and the lower jaw was con- 

 siderably separated in front from the upper as if the mouth had been 

 widely open. All the bones of the skeleton, even though damaged, were 

 still in their proper anatomical positions ; only the smaller bones of 

 the feet and the right hand had been displaced, probably by small 

 animals. The bones were removed with all possible precautions, in 

 some cases with blocks of the deposits, and were taken to Professor 

 Boule's laboratory in the Paris Museum of Natural History, where 

 eventually they were cleaned and studied and where they are now 

 preserved. 



The consensus of opinion of those present was that the remains 

 represented a regular intentional human burial. The three flat stones 

 and the broken animal bones had probably been placed designedly 

 over the skeleton. It was believed, however, that there had been no 

 burial fossa, the body having been placed on the old (Acheulian) sur- 

 face and covered with broken bones, debris, and perhaps skins and 

 branches, to become in the course of time further l)uried l)y kitchen 

 refuse and newer accumulations. 



The explorations by M. Peyrony and his associates in the La 

 Ferrassie rock-shelter continued, the work resulting within the next 

 year in additional discoveries of human remains. These consisted of 

 another skeleton of an adult, in poorer condition ; and of several 

 burials of infants, in which however the human bones have mostly 

 disappeared. 



The second skeleton was discovered in September, 1910. It lay in 

 the middle of the same Mousterian layer, five feet from the rocky 

 wall of the shelter, and with the head only 20 inches from that of the 



