CRO-MAGNON SKULLS AND BONES. 97 



IX. 



ON THE HUMAN SKULLS AND BONES FOUND IN THE CAVE OF CRO-MAGNON, NEAR LES 

 EYZIES. BY Professor PATII, BROCA, General Secretary of the Anthropological Society of Paris. 



CONTENTS. 

 I. Preliminary Remarks, p. 97. 



II. Remarks on the Ages and Sexes of the three Individuals, and the General Characters of the Cro- 

 Magnon Race, p. 99. 



III. Remarks on the Three Individuals above described, p. 101. 

 1. General Remarks, p. 101. 



2. The Stature ; the Limbs ; the Trunk generally studied ; and the Hypothesis of Rachitical 

 Condition discussed, p. 101. 



a. The Stature, p. 101. 6. The Femurs, p. 102. c. The Tibias, p. 103. d. Pla- 

 tycnemic Bones, p. 104. e. Discussion of the supposed Rachitic State of the Bones, 

 p. 106. /. The Fibula, p. 110. g. The Humerus and Ulna, p. 110. h. The 

 Vertebrae and Pelvis, p. 110. 

 3. Study of the Skulls, p. 110. 



a. The Cranial Region, p. 110. b. The Facial Region, p. 113. 

 IV. Conclusion, p. 120. 

 NOTE on M. Pruner-Bey's Esthonian Hypothesis, p. 121. 



[JVofe. In the following descriptions the numbering of the Skulls is different from that in M. Pruner- 

 Bey's Memoir (see above, pages 73-92, and pages 89-91). "No. 1" is the same in both. "No. 2" in 

 this Memoir corresponds with M. Pruner-Bey's "No. 3;" and "No. 3" with his "No. 2." M. Brora 

 has adopted the numbers attached to these Skulls in the Museum of Natural History at Paris.] 



I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 



No discovery could be of greater interest to Anthropologists than that of these 

 bones. It is the complement, I may say the crowning, of the important disco- 

 veries made by M. Edouard Lartet and his lamented collaborator Henry Christy 

 in the Caves of P6rigord, especially in that of Les Eyzies. The objects found in 

 these Caves not only furnished us with the most satisfactory proofs of the 

 contemporaneity of Man and the Mammoth, but they revealed the most curious 

 details of the life and manners of the old Cave-dwellers of Pe"rigord; still we 

 were without any knowledge of the anatomical characters of this intelligent and 

 artistic race, whose clever carvings are objects of our astonishment. 



The excavations lately made near Les Eyzies, by M. Louis Lartet, enable us to 

 supply this want ; and there cannot be any doubt of the authenticity and high 



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