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Human Remains in the Cave of Duruthy.

Fig. 88.—Section of Duruthy Cave.

One of the best examples of the discovery of human bones, of the Cave-men, is offered by the cave of Duruthy, explored by MM. L. Lartet and Chaplain-Duparc, in 1874,^[1] which is of very high importance also in other respects. The cave is situated on a rocky promontory of nummulitic limestone, near Sorde, in the Western Pyrenees, overlooking the junction of the Gave d'Oleron and Gave de Pau, two tributaries of the Adour, and is hollowed in the nummulitic limestone. The undisturbed strata which it contained were in the following order (Fig. 88):—On the rocky floor was a layer of red

1. Matériaux, 1874, p. 101 et seq. Bull. Anthrop. Soc. de Paris, ix. p. 516 et seq.