archéologie de Madras a déjā réunie. Je pense que la race d'Adichanallour appartient aux Protodravidiens."

Dr. Thurston states : "The measurements of six of the most perfect skulls from Ādichanall‡r in the Museum collection give the following results :

Two of the skulls are conspicuously prognathous-a character which appears in a few Tamil and Telugu skulls in the Museum collection.

The following extract from my notes shows that the hyperdolichocephalic type survives in the dolichocephalic inhabitants of the Tamil country at the present day :

The modern system in India of interring a selection of bones from the cremated body seems to have been the method followed at Ādichanallūr, though there is no evidence of cremation at that place. All the finds, however, point to the fact that only certain bones were buried.

On several of the bronzes are traces of cloth, which have been preserved by contact with the oxidized metal. Many of the vessels contained rice and millet seeds, while in a number of urns there were fragments of mica in pieces about an inch in length. The only stone implements found, were neolithic domestic utensils; a few cornelian beads, bronze beads and necklaces occurred also. A stone for grinding sandalwood was found buried outside, but all the other stone articles mentioned above were found inside urns. For the most part the pottery is well made, the clay being of a thin texture, in some cases red, in others black or a combination of the two colours. Only a few instances of applied colour occur, and little or no orna-.