Disoorei'h'S at Baonmi' Rons^e. — Nadaillac. 297 
neolithic times, ruled not only the south of France, l)ut also all 
the Mediterranean shores. It is these same men we meet with 
under the names of Iberians, Ligurians, Sicanians, perhaps also 
under those of Pelasgians and Berbers. It is their bones that 
the brothers Siret found in the south of Spain, professor Sergi in 
Italy, and 3Ir. Riviere at Baousse Roussc. 
All the bones, wherever found, show a great similitude. They 
are rol)Ust, and bespeak an athletic constitution and a large mus- 
cular power. The men were remarkably tall, the crania are doli- 
chocephalic, the tibias platycnemic, but since Dr. Manouvrier's 
observations, we cannot see there an inferior character. The 
cranium of the first skeleton found (an old man) measured 1.590 
cubic centimeters. The cranium of the woman found next to 
him 1,450 cubic centimeters; but this last measurement is not 
(piite accurate, on account of the decomposed state of the bones. 
The man had upon his head a net of small shells {N'assa tu'rifen), 
and bracelets of shells round his arms and legs. Near him Mr. 
Riviere collected more than 150 stone implements, and also num- 
erous bones of mammals, birds, and fishes, evidently the food of 
these people. 
New discoveries ([uickly followed the first ones, and we always 
find a particular mode of inhumation, which, I believe, still ex- 
ists, or lately existed, in some Indian tribes. The bones of all 
the adults, after the total decomposition of the flesh, were painted 
in red with the help of peroxide of manganese or other sub- 
stances frequently met with in the different caverns. 
The last excavations took place in February, 1S02, in one of 
these caves, named Barma (Irande. A communication made to 
the Academic des Inscriptions, March 4, 1892, informed us of 
the discovery, at 8 metres below the level of the ground, of three 
new skeletons, a man, a woman, and a young subject whose dentes 
sapientiie had not yet evolved. They had been buried on a bed 
of cinders, broken fragments of charcoal, remains of all sorts, 
evidently the hearth on which the family cooked their victuals. 
The l)ov wore a necklace formed of two rows of the vertebne of 
a fish and one row of small shells. At ditt'erent points hun<; 
pendants cut out of the canine teeth of stags, decorated witli 
parallel strife. The nnui had also a necklace of fourteen canines 
of the stag, also striated. With the skeletons w(>re found a cer- 
tain munliei- of stone instruments, some of them fini'ly worked, 
