390 QUATERNARY HUMAN REMAINS IN CENTRAL EUROPE. 

 I. IIuTnan remains surely quaternary. 



THE STATION AT TAUBACH. 



The finds of Taiibach (near Weimar) are well known. The base 

 of the deposit at this locality was formed of gravel and sands, partly 

 of glacial origin. Above this was a layer of tufas, having in its 

 lower part remains of fauna contemporary with the Elephas antiquus 

 and Rhinoceros MercJd,, as well as an archeological deposit, with 

 Mousterian, for the most part atypical implements, broken and burned 

 bones, and fireplaces; while the upper layers showed fauna of cold 

 climate {Ele pitas ])rimigenius^Rhinoceros f ichor Jiinus, Rang ifertaran- 

 das), but no traces of man. The uppermost stratum consisted of 

 typical loess. 



A. Weis found in the archeological deposit, in 1892, a tootli of a 

 child. The sj^ecimen lay at the depth of 5.25 meters, and the authen- 

 licity of the find is beyond question. The discoA'ery of an adult 

 liuman molar was reported as having been made in the same layer, 

 but the specimen was obtained by a Avorkingman in the absence of 

 scientific explorers. The writer would not dare to consider this tooth 

 as of quaternary origin, particularly in view of the fact that frauds 

 have been committed at this station since the commencement of its 

 exploration. As scientific men manifested a great desire for hmnan 

 bones, it was not long before some one produced a whole skull, which 

 was declared by Virchow to proceed in all probability from some neo- 

 lithic burial of the region and by no means from the quaternary 

 deposits. Neolithic flints have also been sold at this place to ama- 

 teurs for truly paleolithic. 



THE DEPOSIT OF ANDERNACH. 



The station of Andernach is located about 20 kilometers north of 

 Coblenz, on a terrace elevated 30 meters above the actual niveau of 

 the Rhine. The archeological deposit was found in a layer of loam 

 Avhich covered an ancient and partly disintegrated flow of lava. The 

 quartzite implements recovered show types such as are known from 

 the upper paleolithic. With the stone objects were found numerous 

 points — chisels, needles, and harj^oons of bone and reindeer horn — 

 some of which were decorated. The fauna was composed of Eguus 

 cciballus., Rangifer tarandns^ Bos jyrimigenivs^ Canis Ictgopus.^ Gerints 

 elaphus^ Lagopus cdbus, Lepus variabilis^ etc. With the archeologi- 

 cal objects were discovered also two incisors of a child and seven 

 pieces of human ribs. Their quaternary age is established beyond 

 a doubt. The whole deposit was as if sealed up l)y the products of a 

 l)osterior eruption of pumice stone; this layer was 5 to 6 meters in 

 depth and covered with vegetal earth. 



