The most ancient skeletal remains of man / by A. Hrdlička.

  • Alex Hrdlicka
Date:
1914
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Credit: The most ancient skeletal remains of man / by A. Hrdlička. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lay about 3 feet deep and no disturbance in the superimposed deposits was noticeable. The human bones were uncovered with great care iji the presence of responsible witnesses, then covered again with earth and left m situ for several months, though shown during this time to a number of visitors. In August they were exposed for Virchow, v. d. Steinen, lOaatsch, and other scientific men, and finally, two days afterwards, in the presence of Prof. Klaatsch, they were gathered from the deposits. A somewhat picturesque account of the discovery by Hauser will be found in the 1909 volume of the Archiv fiir Anthropologie.^ The skeleton, it appears, lay on its side in a natural position, with the Fio. 12.—The otpee (A) and lowee (B) Le Mohstiee caves and the position of the SKELETON OF HOMO MousTEEiENSis. (After Klaatsch & Hauser.) right hand under the occiput, the left extended along the body. About the body and among the bones were found seventy-four worked flints, ten of which were of a well-defined form. On the skull rested a charred bone of a Bos primigenius^ and in the neighborhood of the thorax lay a tooth of the same animal. Besides this, 45 other frag- ments of animal bones were gathered in a close vicinity to the human remains. I Klaatsch, A., and O. Hauser. Homo mousterlensls Hauserl. Eln altdiluvlaler Skelett- fund im Departement Dordogne und seine ZugebSiTgkeit zum Neandertaltypus. (Archiv f. .Vnthropologle, N. F., vol. 7, 1909.)