CHAP, vi.] HUMAN SKELETONS IN RIVER-DEPOSITS. 167 



related to the present fauna, just as the European fauna 

 of the late Pleistocene is related to that now alive in 

 Europe. In both regions there was a similar mixture of 

 extinct and living forms ; from both the genus hippo- 

 potamus has disappeared in the lapse of time, and in both 

 man forms the central figure. Mr. Medlicott's con- 

 clusion, therefore, may be accepted, that the fauna of- 

 the Narbada" belongs to the late Pleistocene age in India. 



Human Skeletons in River-deposits. 



The bones of the Eiver-drift man 1 are, as might be 

 expected from the small size of human bones and the 

 rarity of the hunters as compared with the enormous 

 numbers of the animals on which they lived, 2 but very 

 seldom met with in the river-deposits ; and are so frag- 

 mentary as to give but little indication of his physique. 

 Omitting those cases which are doubtful, the following 

 examples may be quoted of the discovery of his remains. 

 In 1867 a portion of a cranium was found at Eguisheim 

 near Colmar by M. Faudel, along with the mammoth 

 and other animals in the loam, proving that the Palaeo-l/ 

 lithic hunter in the Upper Ehine possessed a skull of 

 the long type (Dolichocephalic). In the following year 

 at Clichy, in the valley of the Seine, a human skull and 

 bones were obtained, by M. Eugene Bertrand, from a 

 gravel-pit underneath undisturbed strata of loam, sand, 

 and gravel, at a depth of 5*45 metres from the surface, 



For an account of the human remains mentioned in this paragraph, 

 see Hamy, PaUontologie Humaine, 8vo, 1870, p. 210 et seq.; and Quatre- 

 fages and Hamy, Crania Ethnica, 4to, Parts I. -IV. 



2 On the necessary rarity of the hunter as compared with the game 

 see Sir John Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, 4th edit. p. 364 et seq. 



