CHAP. vii.] SKELETONS OF CAVE-MEN. 225 



middle of a stratum at a metre from the surface, along 

 with flint implements and a sacrum of a cave-bear, deeply 

 cut, and the remains of the spotted hysena, mammoth, 

 and woolly rhinoceros. It presents the same characters, 

 but in a less marked degree, as -that of Naulette. 



Human skeletons, probably of the age of the Cave- 

 men, have been discovered by M. Massenat in the refuse- 

 heaps under the rock- shelter of Laugerie Basse. 1 One of 

 these, termed "the crushed man," lay at a depth 4 

 metres in the debris of ancient hearths, and underneath 

 large blocks of stone which had fallen from the rock above. 

 It was in the crouching posture, and had apparently 

 been crushed by the rocks above. According to Dr. 

 Hamy it belongs to the same long-headed, robust race 

 of men, whose remains are met with in the rock-shelter 

 of Cro-Magnon. Other human remains, previously ob- 

 tained from the same place by M. Massenat, possess 

 long skulls of the usual Neolithic type, as well as the 

 flattened tibia and other modifications of bones of the 

 thigh and leg, which, in Professor Busk's opinion, show 

 that the feet were not hampered in their movements 

 by a rigid sole or sandal. 2 



A human frontal and lower jaw from La Madelaine, 

 together with flattened (platycnemic) tibiae, are also 

 recorded by Professor Edward Lartet, and are referred 

 by Dr. Hamy to the age of the Cave-men. 



A human tooth, found in the cave of Plas Newydd, 

 already referred to, is the only piece of the human frame 

 of late Pleistocene age found in Great Britain. 



1 Eel Aq., p. 256. 2 Cave-hunting, c. v. 



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