THE GRAVES. 



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The greater portion of the three fragmentary human skeletons lay scattered upon the 

 floor of the cave, which was formed partly by the overhanging bowlder and partly by rough 

 stones of varying sizes that had been rolled in so as to cut off the view from the sides of 

 the cave. 



The first skeleton (Ost. Coll. 3207) was that of an adult woman of the highland type. 

 Practically all the basal portion of the skull was missing, the line of fracture from the lower 

 parts of the temporal squamae through the lambda being almost as straight and even as 

 if the skull had been artificially sectioned. 



Figure 44. — Vertical section of the Three-storied Burial Cave 47. 



The second skeleton (Ost. Coll. 3208) was that of a child about twelve years of age. 

 Fragments of the pelvis indicated the female sex. 



The third individual (Ost. Coll. 3209) was an adult woman, the pelvis showing unmis- 

 takable female characters. The left tibia presents a small localized node on the anterior 

 aspect. 



The fractured surfaces of the broken bones of these three skeletons appear as weather- 

 beaten as the natural surfaces, a circumstance indicating that injuries to the skeletons are 

 very old, some of them perhaps the effect of fatal accidents. From the examination of dry 

 bones, it is generally impossible to distinguish posthumous injuries from those that were 

 immediately or soon followed by death. 



No bones of lower animals representing provisions for the dead were found here, nor 

 any bronze articles nor pieces of pottery, with the exception of one small sherd. Whether 



