THE GRAVES. 



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Cave 21. 



In this burial place, which was located very near the last described, three bodies had been 

 interred. When the cave was entered, the only object of interest presented to view was 

 the fragmentary skull (Ost. Coll. 3172) of a woman about twenty years of age. It is an 

 oblono- skull free from deformation, and the young woman was supposedly a native of 



Figure 17. — View of Cave 20. Photograph by the author. 



the highlands. The rest of the skeleton was poorly preserved. A little deeper in the 

 earth floor of the cave a second skeleton (Ost. Coll. 3 171) occurred. In this case the skull 

 was better preserved and more truly dolichocephalic than the first. The sexually characteris- 

 tic parts of the pelvis had decayed, and the form and size of the skull and the other parts 

 collected, afford little help toward determining the sex. I am, however, disposed to regard 

 the skeleton as male. Of the third individual interred here, only a few fragments of a small, 



