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EELIQULE AQUITANIOS. 



The observations collected at Lafaye (Bruniquel), at Cro-Magnon, and especially 

 the state of things at Laugerie Basse, so similar to that of La Madelaine, soon 

 showed that the Cave-dwellers late in the Quaternary period had willingly buried 

 their dead in the places they inhabited ; and Lartet, enlightened as to the true 

 signification of discoveries of this nature by reading Parry, Lyon, &c., no longer 

 hesitated to admit the genuineness of a piece of evidence which his rare good 

 faith and scrupulous accuracy had at first induced him to contest. In his Table 

 of the faunas of the Ve'zere, the genus Homo appears at the head of the genera of 

 Mammalia exhumed at La Madelaine*. 



As we have seen above, the skeleton of La Madelaine consists of the greater 

 part of a frontal bone, the half of a left lower maxillary, and a number of more 

 or less entire bones of the trunk and extremities. 



Figs. 92 and 93. 



(Copied, by permission of the publishers, MM. Bailltire etfils,from the ' Crania Ethnica,' par MM. de 



Quatrefages et Hamy.) 



Fig. 92. Frontal Bone from La Madelaine, 

 side view. (Half natural size.) 



Fig. 93. The same, front view. (Half 

 natural size.) 



The frontal, figs. 92 and 93, and C. Plate IX. fig. 1 a, very much resembles that 

 of " No. 4 " from Laugerie Basse, above described (p. 261), of which it has the super- 

 ciliary arches, the subglabellar depressions, the inclination of the orbital margin, &c. 

 It is merely narrower its minimum diameter scarcely exceeding 9 centims. (3*5 in.), 

 its external biorbital diameter being 107 millims. (4-2 in.); and the only peculiarity 

 it presents is a certain coarseness of the osseous tissue, which is dense, relatively 

 thick (7 millims. or 0*276 inch), and riddled, especially in the superciliary region, 

 with numerous little vascular foramina. A short articular denticulation at the 



* Vide supra, p. 181. 



