small open space between it and the roof, the opening to which had been closed by heaping up the Palæolithic débris ; so that the interment could have taken place long after the shelter had

FIG. 33. Side view of the Skull of the "old man of Cro-Magnon." (Religuiæ Aquitanicæ.)
FIG. 34. Front view of the Skull of the "old man of Cro-Magnon." (Ibid.).

ceased to be inhabited. At the time the grave-goods were also supposed to be in keeping with burials of the early Neolithic period ; but this objection is no longer tenable since the