ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 67 



maps, charts, and specimens. From a stenographic report the fol- 

 lowing abstract of the paper has been prepared : 



The speaker described certain remarkable prehistoric remains 

 which had been discovered while he was President of the Pre- 

 historic Society of the South of Spain. 



The first of these were found in a cave which was called the 

 " Cave of the Bats," situated in the neighborhood of Albunal, 

 between Malaga and Almeria. It is called by that name because 

 when first discovered it was literally filled with bat-guano. This 

 was cleared away, and within were found, first, three skeletons in a 

 sitting posture, the center one of which, that of a woman, having 

 still remaining upon her skull a crown, weighing about i^4 ounces 

 of pure gold, 24 carats fine. She also had on, at the time of her 

 death, a tunic, made of the well known esparto grass, very finely 

 made. The other two were dressed pretty much the same, except 

 that the tunics were made of coarser but sound material. 



Farther in were found three more skeletons, one of which had 

 the skull crushed between two stones, indicating, as he supposed, 

 that the man had been executed. Beside him was found an esparto 

 bag containing food carbonized by the atmosphere, and another 

 containing hatchets and arrow-heads, specimens of which were 

 exhibited, and of which he was supposed ^o be a maker. 



At another point in this cave were found twelve skeletons ar- 

 ranged in a semi-circle, one of which occupying a central position 

 was that of a woman having on a hide tunic laced up under the 

 left arm. Each of these skeletons was in a fair state of preserva- 

 tion when found, but on exposure to the air they crumbled to dust. 



Still farther internally fifty skeletons were found together, whose 

 character and surroundings indicated that they were warriors. 

 Lying all about them were many stone arrow-heads. 



The speaker next described a stone temple, as he called it, being 

 in the nature of an enormous dolmen, or cromlech, situated on the 

 outskirts of the city of Antequera, and known as La Cueva de 

 Mengal. 



