The very large skeleton from the _Grotte des Enfants_, measuring 6 feet 4-1/2 inches, was found associated with the remains of the reindeer, 15 feet below the surface, from which it would appear probable that the skeleton antedates the Aurignacian skeleton of Laugerie Haute, and even of Crô-Magnon. Thus the so-called man of Mentone may be an ancestor of the race which was found in Crô-Magnon and other regions of Dordogne. It is these men of great height, found in Barma Grande and the Grotte des Enfants, which Verneau selects for his description of the primitive members of the Crô-Magnon race, which at this time lived along the Riviera and in the valley of the Vézère and later spread over a vast area in western Europe. It is probable that in the genial climate of the Riviera these men obtained their finest development; the country was admirably protected from the cold winds of the north, refuges were abundant, and game by no means scarce, to judge from the quantity of animal bones found in the caves. Under such conditions of life the race enjoyed a fine physical development and dispersed widely. [Illustration: FIG. 144. Comparative view of the Neanderthal skeleton (left) from _La Chapelle-aux Saints_, and of the skeleton of a very tall member of the Crô-Magnon race (right) discovered in the _Grotte des Enfants_. After Boule and Verneau. Both figures are approximately one-seventeenth life size.] [Illustration: FIG. 145. Sections of the tibia or shin-bone, (1) the normal triangular type; and (2) the extremely platycnæmic flattened type characteristic of the Crô-Magnon race. After Broca.]