NEANDERTHAL MAN 
sulted 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 bones have mostly dis- 
appeared. 
This second skeleton was discovered in September, 
Ig10. It lay in the middle of the same Mousterian layer, 
five feet from the rocky wall of the shelter, and with the 
head only twenty inches from that of the first skeleton. 
It lay at the same level and in the same axis as the latter, 
but in an inverse position, the heads approaching each 
other and the bodies extending in opposite directions. 
The second body had also been flexed and lay on its right 
side, the hands resting on the knees. 
The bones of the lower members were fairly well pre- 
served; those of the upper limbs, partially; but of the 
thorax there were but few remnants. 
The skull of No. 1, relatively well preserved, is plainly 
that of a male; the skull of No. 2, defective, is that of a 
female. The male was about middle-aged, the female 
an adult of uncertain age. The brain portion of the male 
skull is striking because of its size, for it appears to be at 
least as large as that of La Chapelle. It belonged to a 
male taller but somewhat less muscular than the latter 
specimen. The second skull was evidently of but moder- 
ate proportions and belonged to a short female. 
In form the skull of La Ferrassie No. 1 resembles in 
many respects that of La Chapelle, but it also differs 
from the latter in some points, including a somewhat less 
primitive face. The vault is large and spacious, and in 
all important respects much like that of the La Chapelle 
cranium. The supraorbital arch, the forehead, the low 
vault, the occiput, the far-back position of the parietal 
fossae, all are close to those of La Chapelle. 
The face presents, below the heavy arches, similarly 
inclined orbits as in that of La Chapelle, similar relatively 
small and sloping malars with broad frontal processes 
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