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Updated: May 18, 2025
He had worn four on his forehead, two on each shoulder, four on each knee, and two on each foot. All idea of these shells having formed a necklace must be abandoned; they were all notched, and had been used either. to adorn or fasten the clothes. The most interesting discoveries, however, were those made in the caves of Baousse-Rousse, of which we have so often spoken.
Some of the shell anti schist beads were spread upon the surface of the skull, and perhaps formed a net or RESILLE, such as that already referred to as found at Baousse-Rousse. For centuries this occupation of caves continued, offering as they did a shelter that was dry and warm in winter, and cool in summer.
Milne-Edwards enumerates fifty-one species belonging to different orders found in the caves of France, and M. Riviere picked up the remains of thousands of birds in those of Baousse-Rousse on the frontier of Italy. The skulls of the mammals bad been opened, and the bones split. Brains and marrow probably figured at feasts as the greatest delicacies.
Lartet and Christy have made similar discoveries in the caves of the Dordogne; M. Dupont in a shelter at Chaleux, and M. Riviere at Baousse-Rousse. The Abbe Bourgeois found at Villehonneur not only a piece of red chalk as big as a nut, but also an oval-shaped pebble, which had been used for grinding it, the interstices of the surface still retaining traces of coloring matter.
It would seem that we have here evidence of the practice of a funeral rite, which consisted in first stripping the bodies of flesh, and then laying the bones in caves, where they were often left unnoticed by the living occupants of the same refuge. The caves of Baousse-Rousse, near Mentone, give fresh proof of the extension of this rite, if we may so call it.
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