The Solutré Excavations

Macon, September 22. The excavations undertaken by the Society of Human Paleontology of Lyon, under the direction of MM. Depéret, dean; Arcelin and Mayet, professors at the Faculty of Sciences of Lyon; Mazenot, archaeologist, with the collaboration of the Academy of Mâcon, have just ended, for this year at least.

They were particularly fruitful. In total, more than fifteen skeletons of all ages, from the Aurignacian (15 to 20,000 years) to the Middle Ages, have been unearthed.:

Never has any excavation yielded such results, which ranks the Prehistoric Station of Solutré, near Mâcon, as the most important in France. In the last few days, the excavations have yielded horse bones in such good condition that it will be possible to reconstruct this Solutrean quadruped, which we know the Aurignacian made its main food. It is estimated, in fact, that more than 100,000 of these animals whose remains were found at the Cros du Charnier point alone.

From now on, the deductions are as follows: Solutré was inhabited for 15,000 years by all the races that have stayed on our soil: Aurignacians, Solutreans, Magdalenians, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Gallo-Romans.

Current diseases have been observed on some skeletons, for example dental caries, and a bone tumor that welded the tibia and fibula of a Bronze Age subject and could result from tuberculosis or syphilis.
The only thing missing from the series is the skeleton of the man called "Solutrean", who is still only known for his art of flint knapping.
This will hopefully be for the next excavations. (Work.)