FOSSIL MAN FROM LA MADELAINE AND LATJGERIE BASSE. 



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behind a recent structure used as a sheepfold, in the construction of which 

 some ancient deposits, 1-45 metre (4 ft. 8^ in.) thick, which are still seen filling 

 the entire depth of the Shelter, have in part disappeared, a layer, 1'25 metre 

 (4 ft. 1 in.) in thickness, principally of large fallen stones (B B), was met with, 

 among which were continued, more or less dislocated, the hearths FF, with 

 chipped flints and worked hones from the superficial bed. 



In order to get 



Fig. 88. 



Section of the Rock-Shelter at Laugerie Basse, showing the Human Skeleton " No. 4 " of the Massenat 



Collection, in situ. 



A, The skeleton. 

 B B, Blocks of fallen rock. 

 R R' R", Lower rocks, beneath which the 

 gallery was excavated. 



FF, Palaeolithic hearths. 

 T T', Ancient level of the talus, cut down 

 in order to make a sheepfold. 



beneath these blocks (some of which are 9 metres in length, 2 in breadth, and 

 2 in thickness), M. Massenat and his collaborators excavated a gallery under the 

 rocks B B' B" of our section, and in doing so brought to light a new layer 

 of hearths of 1-2 metre (3 ft. ll in.) thickness, abounding in archasological and 

 pala?ontological remains of all sorts, and but little deranged by the fall of the 

 rocks which rested on them. The skeleton was at A, its skull to the north-east, 



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