256 EELIQUI^E AQIJITANIC.*:. 



I. 



In the preceding Parts of this work* detailed descriptions have been given of 

 the anatomical conformation of the Cro-Magnon individuals. The recent " finds " 

 at Laugerie Basse, and the older one at La Madelaine, which we are now about to 

 describe, supply reduced forms of what was excessive in the Troglodytic family 

 discovered by M. L. Lartet : some characters, to which our colleagues attached 

 exaggerated importance, lose a little of their value; several features, reputed 

 constant because found in all the subjects from the Burial-place of Les Eyzies, 

 do not possess the fixity which was attributed to them; the individual variations 

 appear greater ; but, on the whole, the ethnical characteristics subsist nearly as 

 presented by MM. Broca and Pruner-Bey. The whole of the facts obtained, 

 however, give now the notion of a mean which must be very closely approximate, 

 and which will be but little modified by fresh discoveries, at least in the Valley of 

 the Ve'zere. 



The number of subjects exhumed at Laugerie Basse by the able and persevering 

 archaeologist Elie Masse"nat is four. Lartet and Christy found at La Madelaine 

 the remains of a fifth individual. We will study these five fossils seriatim, com- 

 mencing with that which has become celebrated under the name of " the crushed 

 Man " from Laugerie, and bears the " No. 4 " in M. Elie Massenat's collection. 



Skeleton from Laugerie Basse ("No. 4"). M. de Mortilletf communicated 

 the discovery of this skeleton briefly to the Anthropological Society of Paris, on 

 the 4th of April, ] 872 ; and M. Cartailhac gave a detailed description of it in a 

 memoir presented to the Natural-History Society of Toulouse in the course of the 

 same month J. From the information gathered by these two archaeologists, as well 

 as from that which the principal author of the discovery himself forwarded to us, 

 the Skeleton lay at a depth of 4 metres, in ground formed of ancient hearths, strewed 

 with large blocks of fallen rock from the escarpment which overhangs the Quater- 

 nary Station of Laugerie Basse. 



The annexed figure will make intelligible the relations of the skeleton to the 

 deposits of the Reindeer Period which surround and overly it. Beneath and 



* PRUNER-BEY, An Account of the Human Bones found in the Cave of Cro-Magnon ; P. BROCA, On the 

 Human Skulls and Bones found in the Cave of Cro-Magnon, near Les Eyzies : swpra, pp. 73-92, and 97-122. 



f " Les hommes des cavernes a Fepoque de la Madelaine," Bull. Soc. d'Anthrop. de Paris, 2 e serie, vol. vii. 

 p. 489, 1872 ; Materiaux pour 1'Hist. de I'Homme, ser. 2, vol. vii. p. 232. 



J ' Un Sqnelette humain de I'nge du Eenne a Laugerie Basse (Dordogne),' 8vo, from the ' Bull, de la Soc. 

 d'Hist. Nat. de Toulouse,' 1872, pp. 18, 19. See also ' Materiaux ' &c. ser. 2, vol, vii. p. 224, pi. 9. 



