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

  • Alex Hrdlicka
Date:
1914
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    three last named not yet erupted. The bone is very stout and shows other primitive features, but the chin was already slightly developed. The original of the Sipka jaw is still in the care of Prof. MaSka at Tele, Moravia, where it was seen by the writer.^ Among the specimens which while indubitably ancient have not as yet been completely or finally described, should be mentioned, in the first place the parts of the several skeletons discovered between 1909 and 1912 by Capitan and Pe3^rony, in the late Mousterian archeological deposits of La Ferrassie, and the child’s skull found by the same explorers in 1909 in the cave of Pech de I’Aze, near Sarlat (Dordogne), France. The writer has seen these specimens, which are preserved and are being restored in the Museum d’Histoire Na- turelle, Paris; they are in the care of Prof. Boule, who will eventu- ally describe them. Certain observations on some parts of these skeletons have already been included in Prof. Boule’s reports on the Chapelle-aux-Saints’ skeleton. He holds that the remains belong to the Homo Neanderthalensis.^ Ajnong the ancient, but less definitely determined skeletal remains, and among those belonging to the younger paleolithic (Late Quat- ernary) period, there may be mentioned especially the Ochoz,® Brux (Most),* * Brno (Briinn) No. 1,® Canstadt,* Combe-Capelle,® Eguisheim,'^ Galley Hill,® and possibly the Ipswich,® skulls and skeletons. For the often not fully satisfactory details concerning these specimens the reader must be referred to the original publi- cations. Of especial importance, however, is the magnificent collection of ancient skeletal remains discovered at Pfedmost, Moravia, by Prof. K. J. Maska. This- splendid material, which consists of 14 human ^ For detailed description of the Sipka and the ja-w, with the earlier iiterature of the find, see MaSka, Karel, J.—Der dlluviale Mensch in MUhren, 8®. Neutitscheln, 1886. ® For first reports concerning these finds, see Boule, M.—Nouvelles entries dans les collections de PalSontologle du Museum. (L’Anthropologle, vol. 22, 1911, pp. 112-113.) Capitan, L., and Peyrony—Station prfihistorlque de la Ferrassie. (Re-vue anthropologique, vol. 22, 1912, pp. 29-99.) Capitan, L. & Peyrony. Trois nouveaux squelettes humains fossiles. (Revue anthropologique, Nov., 1912, pp. 439-440) ; and Obermaier, H.—Der Mensch der Vorzeit, vol. 1, 1912, pp. 144—145, 339, 436. * Rzehak, A. Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereins, Briinn, vol. 44, 1905 : and Zeitschrift des Mhhrlschen Landesmuseums, vol. 9, Briinn, 1909, pp. 277-313. * Schwalbe, G. Studlen zur Vorgeschichte des Menschen. Zeitschrift fiir Morphologic und Anthropologic, Sonderheft, 1906, with further biography. * Makowsky, A. Der Mensch der Dlluvlalzeit Mfihrens. BrUnn, 1899; Obermaier, H.— Der Mensch der Vorzeit, 1912, pp. 298-352. ® “ Homo Aurlgnacensls Hauseri ”; Klaatsch, H., and O. Hauser.—Prtthlst. Zeltschr., 1910; and Klaatsch, H.—Die Aurlgnacrasse und ihre Stellung Im Stammbaum der Menschhelt. (Zeitschr, Ethnol., 1910.) ’ Broca, P. Fragments de crllne humalne d’EguJshelm. (Bull. Soc. D’Anthrop, Paris, 2d ser., Paris. 1867, pp. 129-131) : Schwalbe, G.—Der Schfidel von Egisheim Beitrlige zur Anthropologle Elsass Lothrlnges Heft 3, Strassburg, 1902. ’ Newton, E. T. Quarterly .Tournal of the Geological Society, August, 1895; also Munro, R.—Paleolithic man, etc., Addenburg, 1912, pp. 109-115; Keith, A.—Ancient types of man, 1911; also Duckworth, W. J. H.—Prehistoric man, Cambridge, 1912. * Being determined and described by Prof. Arthur Keith,