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concerning these bones, for it is not established how and when they 

 became lodged in the loess. 



POLAND. 

 THE CAVE MASZYCKA. 



The cave Maszycka is located in the ravine Ojcow, on the right of 

 the river Pradnik. It contained two archeological deposits, one 

 neolithic and one paleolithic. The remains of -1 human skeletons 

 taken from the cave were always attributed b}^ its explorers to the 

 neolithic age. 



THE CAVE OF WIELKIE OBORZYSKO. 



This narrow fissure is also situated near OjcoAv. Immediately at 

 the entrance P. J. Czarnowski came in 1902 upon a prehistoric fire- 

 place. It was located at the depth of TO centimeters and was inter- 

 calated between the dark surface loam and a yellow lower deposit of 

 quaternary age. About the fireplace were numerous implements of 

 flint, some utensils of bone, and numerous potsherds, A portion of 

 a human cranium lay at the margin of the fireplace, and in the cra- 

 nial cavity were some decomposed shells of the Helix pomatia. A 

 quantity of these Avere also mixed with the ashes in the fireplace. 

 The inferior, yellow layers contained bones of animals, but no traces 

 of man or his handiwork. The indications are that the archeological 

 specimens and the human bones are of the neolithic age, and not 

 quaternary. 



SECOND PART.— DISCOVERIES MADE IN GERMANY. 



In Germany quaternary stations are much rarer than in the neigh- 

 l)oring countries of Austria-Hungary or France, and may be ex- 

 plained by the position of the country between the two glacial cen- 

 ters, that of the North and that of the Alps. 



The stations of quaternary man outside of the caves are seldom 

 found in the loess, in which the country is poor, but in other geolog- 

 ical formations. 



The human reinains range themselves either Avith the old paleo- 

 lithic, as at the station Taubach, the industry of which is surely pre- 

 Mousterian — or with the Solutrean (finds in loess), and Magdalenian. 

 They are chronologically as follows: 

 III. Glacial period. 



."!. Interglacial period. 



(a) Warm phase — Taubach. 

 {}>) Phase of the Steppes. 

 lY. Glacial period. 



Postglacial time, 

 (fl) Solutrean. 

 (&) Magdalenian: Andernaeh ou the Rhine. 



