ANCIENT EEMAINS OF MAN HEDLICKA. 



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proceed from but one age and one culture, namely the Mousterian. 

 The objects of archeological interest recovered during the excavation 

 comprise in the main worked stones of the well-known Mousterian 

 types, and remains of bones of fossil animals, such as the reindeer, 

 bison, Rhinoceros tichorhinus^ etc. The animal remains indicate that 

 the deposits date from somewhere near the middle of the glacial 

 epoch. 



Under the accumulations the floor of the cavern was found to be 

 whitish, hard, marly calcareous; and in this hard base, at the dis- 

 tance of a little over four meters from the entrance of the cave, was 

 located the nearly rectangular, moderate-sized cavity ^ which lodged 

 the fossil human skeleton. The depression was clearly made by the 



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Fig. 9.— Cave of La Chapelle-aux-Saints. (After Bouyssonie & Bardon, and Boule.) 

 a, Floor; 6, longitudinal section; c, transverse sections. 



primitive inhabitants or visitors of the cave for the body and the 

 whole represents very plainly a regular burial, the most ancient in- 

 tentional burial thus far discovered. 



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

 latter being 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 partly 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, some foot 

 bones of a large Bovid, suggesting that the whole foot of the animal 

 may have been placed in that position. About the body were many 



1 1.45 meters long, 1 m. broad, and 30 cm. deep. 



