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Rh Here, out of about a dozen skeletons sufficiently well preserved to have their osteological characters determined, all have been recorded as belonging to the Cro-Magnon type, with the exception of two which M. Verneau describes as a new race. All the skeletons of the Cro-Magnon type found in the Grimaldi caves were ceremonial interments by inhumation, except one body which had been carbonized; but as ornaments precisely similar to those found with the inhumed bodies were associated with the carbonized bones, there can be little doubt that the latter also belonged to the Cro-Magnon race. The bodies at the time of burial appear to have been covered over with a layer of the red oxide of iron, instances of which have been recorded from other widely separated localities, such as the interment known as the Paviland red woman in the Gower Peninsula, and others at Chancelade, Mas-d'Azil, Brünn (Moravia), etc.

5. Race de Grimaldi.—Of this race two skeletons have been found in the "Grotte des Enfants," near Mentone, one being that of a young man and the other that of an aged female. They lay close to each other and evidently belonged to the same race, with a type of skull which Dr. Verneau describes as negroid, and disclosing anatomical characters intermediate between those of the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skeletons (Fig. 17). Their physical characters may be thus stated:

Cranium elliptic, cephalic index (male)