For these reasons it seems to be doubtful whether the interment is of the same age as the occupation. The skull-shape, and the burial in the crouching posture, point rather in the direction of the long-headed race, that buried their dead in caves, in the neolithic age, in France, Spain, Belgium, and Great Britain. _The Cave of Cro-Magnon._ The human skeletons in the cave of Cro-Magnon, at Les Eyzies, a little village on the banks of the Vezère in Périgord, fall into the same doubtful category as those of Aurignac. The cave (Fig. 71, _f_), situated at the base of a low cliff, was completely concealed by a talus of loose débris, four metres thick, which had fallen from above. (Fig. 71, _b_.) [Illustration: FIG. 71.--Section across the Valley of the Vezère, and through the rock of Cro-Magnon. Level of the Vezère at low water, 58·25 metres above the sea. Height of cave above the Vezère, 15 metres; above the sea-level, 73·25 metres. Distance from the cave to the river, 177 metres. _a_ Railroad. _b_ Talus. _c_ Great block of stone. _d_ Ledge of rock. P Limestone. M Detritus of the slopes and alluvium of the Valley. _e_ Rock of Cro-Magnon. _f_ Cave. _g_ Château and Village of Les Eyzies, in the Valley of the Beaune. _h_ Gatekeeper’s house. _i_ Railway bridge over the Vezère. _j_ Caves of Le Cingle. ] It forms one of a group of caves at various heights above the Vezère, which are very well represented in the preceding figure, which I am kindly allowed to borrow from the “Reliquiæ Aquitanicæ” (Fig. 39). At the time of its discovery in 1868, in the course of making an embankment for the railway close by, and of obtaining material for mending the roads, it was completely blocked up. On the removal of this (_b_), by the contractors MM. Bertoú-Meyroú and Delmarés, the entrance was exposed, and human remains and worked flints revealed, which were carefully exhumed in the presence of MM. Laganne, Galy, and Simon. At this stage of the exploration M. Louis Lartet was deputed, by the Minister of Public Instruction, to superintend the work, and from his report the following account is taken (Lartet and Christy, “Rel. Aq.,” p. 66) by the courtesy of the editors.