258 BELIQUI^E AQUITANIC^E. 



towards the Ve'zere, the feet to the south-west, towards the further end of the 

 Shelter. It lay on its left side, in a crouching posture, the left hand upon the 

 corresponding parietal, the right on the neck, the elbows towards the knees, one 

 of the feet somewhat drawn up towards the pelvis. To M. Cartailhac it repre- 

 sented an individual overtaken by a fall of earth, and bending himself together in 

 order to escape death. The vertebral column was crushed under the edge of a 

 large block of stone, the pelvis dashed to pieces ; but some of the limb-bones 

 were nearly intact, and the skull in a favourable condition for a tolerably detailed 

 description. 



Among the limb-bones accessible to examination, the most remarkable are the 

 right humerus and fibula, which M. Massenat was able to disengage uninjured 

 from the block in which the skeleton is enclosed. Still these two bones are 

 imperfect, the humerus wanting a portion of its head, and the fibula having 

 lost its upper extremity. It is easy to restore the parts that are wanting, 

 by comparing these with the similar bones found at Cro-Magnon, especially 

 those of the " Old Man." The humerus, in its present state, is 309 rnillims. 

 (12 inches) in length ; comparison shows that about 30 millims. (1'18 inch) must 

 be added to this to give its total length : thus completed, it measures 335 millims. 

 (12-19 inches); that is to say, it equals, or falls very little short of the mean 

 length of those from Cro-Magnon*, which allows us to suppose that our subject 

 must have been not far from the height (l - 8 metre =5 ft. 11 in.) assigned to the 

 men of the Rock-Shelter discovered by M. Louis Lartet. It repeats, moreover, 

 all the other exceptional characters of the humeri found in that Station. The 

 shaft (diaphysis) is long and stout, somewhat compressed laterally, with a 

 thick and rugose posterior border, enormous deltoid-muscular impressions, a 

 short but well-defined groove of torsion. The inferior extremity is remark- 

 able for its width (66 millims. or 2 - 6 inches), the prominence of its epitrochlea 

 (exceeding 1 centim. =0'39 inch), and the dimensions in all directions of its 

 articular surfaces. This inferior extremity, flattened antero-posteriorly, is a little 

 incurved forwards, the curvature commencing at the junction of the middle and 

 inferior thirds. The olecranian and sigmoid cavities are separated by a relatively 

 thick partition f. 



The much more striking anatomical characters described in the fibulae from 

 Cro-Magnon are found with extremely remarkable exaggerations (C. Plate IX. & X. 

 fig. 12) in the fibula of "No. 4" from Laugerie Basse. The length of the frag- 

 ment exceeds 34 centims. (13'4 inches); and to this about 4-J centims. (1-8 inch) 



* Explanation of C. Plate VI., p. 91. t Vide supra, p. 84. 





