PRINCE ALBERT I OF MONACO BOULE 501 



The Prince decided then to move his workshop elsewhere. The 

 " Grotte des Enfants " had been only partly excavated. There still 

 remained nearly 8 meters in thickness of untouched deposits. Here 

 the investigations achieved the greatest success from an anthropo- 

 logical point of view: Four human skeletons were discovered at 

 three different levels. The stratigraphic and paleontological ob- 

 servations made it possible to solve definitely the problem of the 

 age of the formerly and recently discovered human skeletons at the 

 Baousse-Rousse. 



The chief conclusion from these observations is that all of the 

 skeletons are indeed Pleistocene. Those from the upper layers go 

 back at most to the reindeer period. My learned colleague and 

 friend, M. Verneau, who had already published interesting accounts 

 of the skeletons of the Barma Grande, was invited by the Prince to 

 make an anthropological study of them. He had no difficulty in 

 showing that both belonged clearly to the Cro-Magnon race. It was 

 the task of my dear friend Cartailhac, whom our science has mourned 

 for a long time, to show in the archeological memoir, which he 

 willingly undertook to prepare, that all of these burials, those of 

 the Dordogne as well as those of the Cote d'Azur, were associated 

 with the same accessories, pierced shells, objects of ornamentation, 

 bone colored red, etc., and all bore witness to the same culture. 



The two skeletons from the lower level are of an earlier epoch, of 

 an age difficult to determine exactly, but which I have every reason 

 to believe Mousterian, or closely allied to Mousterian. They also 

 constituted a burial, and you all know that after having made a 

 careful study of them M. Verneau concluded that they belonged to a 

 special race, presenting numerous negroid characters, which he called 

 the " Grimaldi race." The fact is of prime importance for several 

 reasons. First, because we are here in the presence of a human 

 type of an age very near that of the Neanderthal, if not of 

 the same age, and the coexistence in western Europe in the same 

 geological epoch of two such different human forms gives us much 

 to think about ; also because the resemblances of this new type, show- 

 ing many traits in common with certain African races of Homo 

 sapiens, lead us to believe that the "statuettes of Menton," with 

 equally negroid and steatopygous characters, are rude effigies of 

 this type. * * 



The authenticity of these statuettes was discussed for a long time, 

 especially because the exact circumstances of their discovery remained 

 quite obscure, Riviere and G. de Mortillet considering them as the 

 work of a clever forger who attempted to imitate the ivory figurines 

 discovered by Piette a Brassempony in the Pyrenees. 

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