130 Shells as evidence of the Migrations. 
considerable confidence be correlated with those found in 
the valley of La Vézére, at Laugerie-Basse, Cro-Magnon, 
Gourdan, and Chancelade. Villeneuve® records, amongst 
other shells, one Cypre@a, from an occupation level (Foyer 
D), 3m. 15. from the surface, in La Grotte des Enfants. 
The specific name, unfortunately, is not given. On the 
same level a remarkable find was made of Cassts rufa, an 
Indian Ocean shell.” 
At Barma Grande, another of the Mentone Caves, 
various kinds of ornaments of teeth and bone, and perfor- 
ated shells of Massa nerttea, were found, in 1892, near the 
head of one of the skeletons discovered there ; but the 
most interesting and remarkable find was that “on each 
thigh bone above the knee was a perforated cowry.”* The 
body is said to be that of an old man. It is of interest 
to note that all the skulls found here are stated to be of 
4° “Tes Grottes de Grimaldi (Baoussé—Roussé),” Tome i., Fasc. 1. 
** Historique et Description.” By M. L. de Villeneuve (p. 65). (Impri- 
merie de Monaco, 1906). 
*' Jbid., Tome i. Fasc. 2. **Géologie et Paléontologie.” By Prof. 
Marcellin Boule (p. 123); In a footnote to this page, G. Dollfus remarks : 
** Cassis rufa L., an Indian Ocean shell, is represented in the collection at 
Monaco by two fragments ; one was found in the lower habitation level D ; 
the other is probably of the same origin. The presence of this shell is 
extraordinary as it has no analogue in the Mediterranean, neither recent 
nor fossil ; there exists no species in the North Atlantic or off Senegal with 
which it could be confounded. The fragments have the traces of the reddish 
colour preserved and are not fossil; one of them presents a notch which 
has determined a hole that seems to have been made intentionally, The 
species has not yet been found in the Gulf of Suez nor in the raised-beaches 
of the Isthmus. M. Jousseaume has found it in the Gulf of Tadjoura at 
Aden, but it has not yet been encountered in the Red Sea nor in the raised- 
beaches of that region. The common habitat of Cass#s rufa is Socotra, 
besides the Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, New Caledonia and perhaps 
Tahiti. The fragments discovered at Mentone have therefore been brought 
from a great distance, at a very ancient epoch, by prehistoric man.” 
4? Munro, ‘* Palwolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe.” 
Edinburgh, 1972, p. 163. [At p. 235, perforated teeth and shells, Massa, 
Cyprua, Pectunculus, evc., are mentioned as being found atthe Rock-shelter 
of Cap-Blanc (Laussel), Dordogne}. 
