QUATERNARY HUMAN REMAINS IN CENTRAL EUROPE. 



By HUGUES OBERMAIER.a 



INTRODUCTION. 



In order that the great problem of quaternary races in central 

 Europe may be presented Avith accuracy and reliable conclusions be 

 reached, it is indispensable to begin by establishing a list of well- 

 authenticated quaternary anthropological discoveries, and separate 

 from it all finds the age of which is not settled. A record of this 

 nature can be accomplished only by patient and methodic discrimina- 

 tion based on a painstaking study of the localities, the objects recov- 

 ered, and the publications relating to ancient man. With the aim of 

 producing such a record, the writer has applied himself for several 

 years to the study of everything that appeared in print on the sub- 

 ject of quaternary man in Europe, and visited, as far as possible, the 

 collections, the localities of the finds, and the men who made the dis- 

 coveries. The present publication is the result of these researches; it 

 is purely geological and archeological in nature, nevertheless the 

 data will also be of service to those who may desire to deal with the 

 problem from the standpoint of physical anthropology or compara- 

 tive anatomy.'' 



GEOLOOICAL CHRONOnOOY OF THE QFATERNARY PERIOD. 



For accurate chronology of the quaternary of the Alps we are 

 indebted to A. Penck and E. Briickner. This chronology was briefly 

 outlined by the writer himself in L' Anthropologic and extended 

 to the rest of Europe in another publication, and geologists dealing 

 with northern Germany and England conformed to it in all essen- 

 tials. M. J. Partsch has shown that glacial phenomena presented 

 the same characteristics over all the other mountainous masses of 

 Europe, and that what can be termed the climatological harmony 

 of Europe has been everywhere lowered by several octaves during 



« Abstract, translated by permission, from L'Anthroiwlogie. T. XVI, Nos. 4-5, 

 1905, and ibid., T. XYII. Nos. 1-2, 1900, supplemented witb author's additions. 



6 For detailed bibliographical references the reader is referred to the original 

 papers in L'Authropologie. 



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