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146 with the geological and palseontological conditions under which they were found (which were proved to be of the Moustérien epoch), Manouvrier thought they should be accepted as representatives of the race which inhabited the north of France during the Moustérien epoch. (R.E.A., 1897, p. 305.)

The Cave of Duruthy.

The cave of Duruthy, at Sorde (Landes), explored during the winter of 1872-3 and described by MM. Lartet and Chaplain-Duparc (Une sepulture des anciens troglodytes des Pyrenées, 1874; Matériaux, etc., 1874, p. 101), is of singular importance in having contained both a Palæolithic skeleton and

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FIG. 42. Section of Duruthy Cave, showing position of Palæolithic skeleton (A) and Neolithic burials (D)..

a subsequent sepulchre of the Neolithic period. The cave, or rather rock-shelter, is situated in a rocky prominence overlooking the junction of two tributaries of the Adour. It measured only 2 metres in depth, and 8 or 9 metres in breadth. The accompanying section (Fig. 42) shows the following succession of archæological deposits found in it. On the rocky floor was a layer of red earth (No. 1), overlying which was a thin band of the débris of habitation black with charcoal (No. 2), in which was found a human skeleton so much crushed with fallen blocks that no precise measurements of the skull could be taken, even after its restoration. It was, however, clearly dolichocephalic, and in all respects similar to the skulls of Laugerie Basse and Chancelade. As the body had only been partly protected by