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Dr. Buckland, in 1824,* discovered in the Paviland Cave, 
Glamorgan, beneath a shallow covering of earth, nearly the 
entire left side of a human female skeleton, which, he states, 
was clearly not coeval with the antediluvian bones of the 
extinct species of elephant, rhinoceros, hyaena, bear, &c. found 
there ; but that this exposed and solitary cave had, at some 
time or other, been the scene of human habitation, not only" 
from the charcoal and fragments of recent bone, but that the 
ivory rods and rings in contact with the skeleton were certainly 
made from part of the antediluvian tusks that lay in the same 
cave. Besides the skeleton of the “ Bed Lady of Paviland,” 
human bones have been fouud by Col. Wood in the “ Spritsail- 
Tor” cave, and in the ossiferous fissure of Mewslade, in the 
Peninsula of Gower. 
Dr. Schmerling, however, in 1833, announced the discovery, 
in the Engi and Engihoul Caves in the Valley of the Meuse, 
of the bones of man, associated with those of recent and extinct 
mammals — rhinoceros, horse, elephant, bear, hyaena ; the bones 
were indiscriminately mixed together, and the cave earth did 
not seem to have been subsequently disturbed. 
M. Marcel de Serres, in his exhaustive essay for that period 
(1838), on “Bone Caverns,” cites many instances of the co- 
occurrence of human remains : in America (Kentucky) with 
the megalonyx, bear, deer, and bison ; in Franconia with 
extinct species ; in France, in the departments of Lozere, Gard, 
and l’Aude. 
M. E. Lartet, in his paper on “ The Co-existence of Man 
and the Great Fossil Mammalia,” published in the 66 Annales 
des Sciences Naturelles ” (Ser. IV. vol. xv. p. 178), after his 
examination of the Aurignac Cave, near St. Gaudens, states 
that, not only was man cotemporary with the mammoth and 
rhinoceros, but, like the natives of Africa at present, used the 
latter as an article of food ; and that the human remains are of 
great antiquity, as they were associated with the bison, rein- 
deer, megaceros, hyaena, and Ursus spelceus , the latter, according 
to M. Lartet, being the earliest which disappeared of the 
group of the great mammalia, and which age — the earliest of 
primitive man — was followed successively by the age of the 
elephant and the rhinoceros, the age of the reindeer, and the 
age of the aurochs. 
The cavern of Bize and others, in the vicinity of Narbonne, 
are equally remarkable for the similar association of man with 
the Ursus spelceus , Hycena spelcea , Rhinoceros tichorhinus , 
and reindeer, with about sixteen other species, of which the 
bones of the ox, deer, and horse were the most numerous, 
* “ Beliquise Diluvianse,” p. 87. 
