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of the cave was found an old man's skull (ft), which alone was on a level with 

 the surface, in the cavity not filled up in the back of the cave, and was therefore 

 exposed to the calcareous drip from the roof, as is shown by its having a 

 stalao-mitic coating on some parts. The other human bones, referable to four 

 other skeletons, were found around the first, within a radius of about 1'50 metre. 

 Among these bones were found, on the left of the old man, the skeleton of a 

 woman (fig. 42, m), whose skull presents in front a deep wound, made by a 

 cutting instrument, but which did not kill her at once, as the bone has been 

 partly repaired within; indeed our physicians think that she survived several 

 weeks. By the side of the woman's skeleton was that of an infant which had not 

 arrived at its full time of foetal development. The other skeletons (figs. 41 and 

 42, d) seem to have been those of men. 



Amidst the human remains lay a multitude of Marine Shells (about 300), 

 each pierced with a hole, and nearly all belonging to the species Littorina littorea 

 so common on our Atlantic coasts. Some other species, such as Purpura lapillus, 

 Turritella communis, &c.*, occur, but in small numbers. These also are per- 

 forated, and, like the others, have been used for necklaces, bracelets, or other 

 ornamental attire t- Not far from the skeletons, I found a pendant or amulet of 

 ivory, oval, flat, and pierced with two holes. M. Laganne had already discovered 

 a smaller specimen ; and M. Ch. Grenier, Schoolmaster at Les Eyzies, has kindly 

 given me another, quite similar, which he had received from one of his pupils. 

 There were also found near the skeletons several perforated teeth, a large block 

 of gneiss, split and presenting a large smoothed surface ; also worked antlers of 

 Reindeer, and chipped flints, of the same types as those found in the hearth- 

 layers underneath. 



This Sepulture occupied a very limited area ; and we have met with no trace of 

 it in a cutting along the line y-S of the Plan (fig. 42). This second section (fig. 43), 



* M. Fisher, my Colleague in the Museum, has been so good as to assist me in these determinations. 



t Should it he asked if the Reindeer-hunters of Perigord did not use these shells as money, as is at 

 present the custom in the East and on the Coast of Guinea with the Cowries got from the Philippines and 

 the Maldives, we have three reasons for not supposing that they did. 1st. The original place of the Shells 

 is too near to the Stations of the Vezere. 2ndly. Though the Littorina littorea much predominates, yet 

 there were found other oceanic shells with them, which could not answer to the conventional and specified 

 type constituting this sort of money. 3rdly. In analogous Stations we find rare fossil shells similarly 

 perforated, and prohably intended to be hung from the neck, just like the amulets and pierced teeth 

 frequently found in deposits of this kind. 



Moreover, of what use would money have been to men who found in the animals with which the country 

 abounded all the supplies required by their manner of life ? 



