THE EARLY NEANTHROPIC AGE 95 



tending from the oldest part of the anthropic to 

 modern times, and furnishing what may be regarded 

 as a chronological series for Northern France, as many 

 human remains have been from time to time deposited 

 on this old eddy of the Seine and buried under 

 newer accumulations. Belgrand has shown that in 

 the lowest gravels of this deposit the long-headed 

 Canstadt man is alone found. Immediately above 

 this occur remains of the Cro-magnon type, and these 

 are associated with and overlain by beds holding 

 large stones or erratic blocks, a monument perhaps of 

 the physical disturbances closing the palanthropic 

 age. Above these the next remains are those of a 

 race of men of smaller stature and with less elongated 

 heads, which we shall find belong to the neanthropic 

 age. Here, as Quatrefages points out, we have a 

 distinct stratigraphical succession, which accords with 

 that in other localities. 



If we now turn to England we may select from 

 other examples the Cresswell caves, so carefully ex- 

 plored by Dawkins and Mello, and in which we have 

 well-ascertained evidence from fossils as well as from 

 superposition. Without going into the details as to 

 the several chambers and passages in these caverns, 

 we find as the result of the whole the following suc- 

 cession in ascending order : 



1. White calcareous sand, a deposit from water, 

 but with no animal remains. 



2. Stiff red clay with blocks of limestone, and in 

 places underlaid by a ferruginous sand. These beds, 



