QUATERNARY HUMAN REMAINS IN CENTRAL EUROPE. 875 



PART FIRST.— DISCOVEIIIRS IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



The first part of this report will be devoted to the ancient osteo- 

 logical discoveries made in Austria-Hungary. The quaternary arch- 

 eological deposits of this country are divided into two large groups, 

 nameh% those which occur in the loess that covers a great portion of 

 the surface of the Empire, and those which are found in caves. The 

 latter are again divided into two classes, one, the more ancient, 

 ])olonging to the lower layers of the cavern deposits and character- 

 ized by only the lower-paleolithic implements of a very primitive 

 nature — the other distinguished by the presence of flint implements 

 of definite and much varied forms as well as by bone implements, 

 and belonging to the more recent Magdalenian culture. The industry 

 represented in the loess finds is typically Solutrean and belongs 

 chronologically between the two of the caves. This fact has been 

 established by stratigraphic observations, particularly in western 

 Europe, and is supported by the clear separation between the objects 

 of the cave and the loess finds, even Avhere such deposits existed in 

 immediate vicinity. 



The old-paleolithic stations of Austria-Hungary show especially 

 implements of atypical forms, with which are mixed comparatively 

 few Mousterian varieties. 



According to the writer's now chronological tal)Ie the sites of 

 quaternary man in Austria-Hungary, which have yielded with other 

 objects remains of the human skeleton, range as follows: 



III. Glacial peri(Hl. 



Pk Interglacial i»eriocl. 



((/) Warm — Krapina (Croatia). 



(J>) Cool^Sipka (Moravia): possibly also fjomewhat later. 

 IV. Glacial period. 



Postglacial time. 



(ff) Last loess pbase (Solutrean) — Willendorf (Lower 



Austria) Predmost ; Brno (Briinn) (Moravia). 

 (h) Magdalenian culture — Gudenushoehle (Lower Aus- 

 tria). 



Louc (Lautsch), Lichenstein cave (Moravia). 



I. — Humcm remains, surely qriaternanj. 



Archeological remains of the quaternary man are frequent, those of 

 skeletal nature are rare. I shall give the discoveries belonging to this 

 category of the finds in their chronological order. 



THE CAVE OF SIPKA.« 



In northern Moravia, 10 kilometers east of Novy Jicin, is the 

 Jurassic mountain Kotouc. This mountain, which is visible from afar 



aCh. Maska: Mittheilungen d. Anthrop. Gesellsch. in Wein, 1882, p. 67. Also: 

 Der diluviale Mensch in Mahren. Novy Jicin (Neutitschein), 1886, p. 67 (with 

 one figure of tbe jaw). 



