732 PROF. B. DAWKINS AND REY. J. M. MELLO ON 
Prehistoric and Historic Fauna of Mother Grundy’s Parlour, 1878. 
Surface-soil and 
disturbed red sandy 
Cave-earth. 
Human bones and implements ................s0.ee00 
Wild Cat (Felis catus ferus) .....cccccoscecsecneceeeees 
Dog (Canis familiaris) ......cecscseccscsseseneeesoscees 
1 SNop-@:( (GF KEI IAS) Sob oeaodononaqoneubsaneacodadcasdHeonconcece 
Marten (Mustela martes) ........cseersecoececceerecnseees 
Tpke lege (AIS UCAS) seanaaccsaqob00s00000000200000005008 
Stag (Cervus Claphus) .........csecscsoececerercrseeserees 
1s) (Gb GOPARADILS)).. cocancoosanoabodsdongqaeqcuacoosbnadbac 
Horned Sheep or Goat .........c.cccecececeeeneeeeeeees 
Celtic Shorthorn (Bos longifrons) ..........0.ceseeeeee 
IFS s conoono spoon osdondodondoosbosoooobocdKesoC 
Hare or Rabbit 
Rabbit: as sednscsssatheonaadcnnceceteeeenteceanrane arteries 
KOK KK KK Ok 
KK KK KE 
country and on the continent in the Neolithic and succeeding ages. 
That found in the passage B belongs to the long type (dolichocephali 
of Thurnam and Huxley, and according to Prof. Morrison Watson 
is hydrocephalic), while that found in chamber B belongs to the 
round-headed brachycephali of the same two authors. 
The conditions under which the skull in chamber B was discovered 
were such that it might have been taken to have belonged to one of 
the Paleolithic inhabitants of the cave, had not the explorations been 
conducted with all possible vigilance. My experience of cave-explo- 
ration compels me to decline to accept any human bones as Paleo- 
lithic without the clearest stratigraphical evidence on the point, such 
as that offered by the human skull found by MM. Lartet and 
Chaplain Dupare in the cave of Duruthy, Sorde, in the Western 
Pyrenees. Not only is this evidence wanting in every one of the 
Paleolithic types from caverns selected by MM. de Quatrefages 
and Hamy, in their great work ‘ Crania Ethnica,’ now being pub- 
lished, but in the two most important types it points to a contrary 
conclusion. The long skulls constituting the “‘ type de Cro-Magnon ” 
belong to an interment which is later than the Paleolithic remains 
in the rock shelter, because they are above them; and the round skulls 
of the Trou du Frontal are associated with domestic animals and 
pottery of a kind not uncommon in the Neolithic age. The so-called 
fossil man of Mentone may be referred to the same date as the 
polished stone axe found in the cave, and to be seen in the Museum 
at St. Germain, in 1876. The pottery found with human remains 
in the caves of Engis, Aurignac, Bruniquel, and Bize is identical with 
Neolithic pottery, and indicates that the interments are not Palexo- - 
lithic but Neolithicin date. Pottery and domestic animals were alike 
unknown in the Paleolithic age. 
The long skulls found in the above caves are of the same type as 
the long skulls referred to the Iberic population of Western Europe in 
the Neolithic age ; and the round skulls cannot be distinguished from 
