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in the first specimen. A small part of the left glenoid fossa has been 

 preserved, also the nasal suture and the base of the broad nasal 

 bones. 



Saccopastore. — The estate of Saccopastore is about 3.5 km. (2.2 

 miles) from the Porta Pia, Rome. Here in a gravel pit workmen 

 discovered a skull of the Neandertal type in 1929. It was immedi- 

 ately turned over by the lessee of the estate, Signor Casorri, to the 

 Duke of Grazioli, who confided it to the Anthropological Institute 

 of the University of Rome, where it will be preserved. According 

 to Prof. Sergio Sergi, the mandible is lacking but the cranium is in 

 a fairly good state of preservation. 



The cranium is characterized by the relatively large facial in con- 

 trast with the cerebral portion, as well as the high degree of progna- 

 thism and the depression of the vault. The cranial capacity is not 

 over 1,200 cc. and the cranium is that of a female. The remaining 

 teeth, five molars and a premolar, are large. The orbital apertures 

 are very large; the piriform aperture is low and large. The anterior 

 projection of the nasal processes and of the body surface of the 

 maxilla form a kind of snout, not met with in any other known type. 



The cranium came from a depth of 6 m. (19.6 feet) in a stratum of 

 sand and gravel, rich in fossil animal remains: Elefhas antiquus, 

 Hippopotamus 7najor, Rhinoceros iiiercki^ Cervvs elnphus^ Bos primi- 

 ffenius, and others. No artifacts have been found at Saccopastore, 

 but artifacts of the Mousterian type were found in the same strata of 

 near-by sites in the valley of the Tevere and Aniene as early as 1846. 

 These finds with that of the cranium are proof that man lived in 

 Lazio probabl}^ as early as the Riss-Wiirm interglacial epoch. 



Czechoslovakia. — There are many sand pits and brickyards within 

 and near the city limits of Brno. These are watched continuously 

 for prehistoric relics. In May, 1927, a human skeleton was found in 

 the exploitation in Susilova Street, Zabovresky quarter of the greater 

 city. The skeleton was found in a red sandy loam at the contact 

 between the sand and the coarse gravel at a depth of 2.15 m. (7 feet). 

 It lay in a crouching position in a kind of egg-shaped hollow. The 

 color of the sandy loam about it was deep red. Since the color 

 diminished in intensity radially in all directions from the skeleton, 

 the coloring matter must have been originally a part of the burial. 

 The skeleton, which was in a bad state of preservation, is that of an 

 adult woman and is referred to as Brno III. According to Matiegka, 

 the skull bears the strongest resemblance to the skulls from Combe- 

 Capelle and Mladec I; also in certain features to Brno II and the 

 female skulls from Predmost. 



An additional fossil human- skeleton was found at Predmost in 

 1928. The skeleton, in a fragmentary condition, was found in ashes 

 of the Paleolithic layer, associated with bones of the mammoth. 



