QUATERNARY HUMAN REMAINS IN CENTRAL EUROPE. 391 



The finds made at Andernach are preserved in the Provincial 

 Museum at Bonn. 



Erroneous, Doubtful, or Indefinite Observations. 



(«) BAVARIA. 



HUMAN REMAINS OF THE " RAUBERHOEHI.E," NEAR RATSTBONE. 



This cave is situated in the valley of the Nab, at about 8 kilometers 

 west of Ratisbon. It was explored in 1871 by O. Fraas, Ch. de 

 Zittel, and F. de Guembel, who encountered in it a neolithic deposit 

 with recent fauna, but on a lower level came across a quaternary 

 stratum with remains of Hya'mi spelea^ Ursiis spelceus^ Rangifer 

 tamndus, etc. There were signs that the earth had been disturbed, 

 for bones of quaternary mammals were found in the recent deposit, 

 and vice versa. The writer has not been able to find the rare quater- 

 naiy implements of bone or reindeer horn mentioned by Zittel, and 

 all that he could see of the flint objects were atypical flakes with rela- 

 tively fresh color and fracture. Under these conditions he can not 

 admit the existence of a paleolithic station in the cave in question. 

 Wliatever the facts may be, however, it is wholly impossible, in view 

 of the disturbed condition of the deposits, to assign any definite age 

 to fragments of a human skull exhumed with the other objects in this 

 locality. 



CAVE OF GAILENREUTH CAVE OF OFNET. 



The data concerning the specimens found in these caves are in 

 neither case satisfactory, and it is necessar}' to place both finds among 

 those of uncertain age. 



(/>) WURTEMBERG. 



Ancient reports mention a human skull exhumed in 1833 in the 

 " Schillerhoehle,''' near Wittlingen, and a second one discovered in 

 1831 in the " Erpfinger," or '" Karls-Hoehle."' There are no paleon- 

 tological or stratigraphical data concerning these caves. Another 

 cave, known as " Heppenloch," near Gutenberg, yielded remains of 

 a human skeleton belonging, according to all indications, to the 

 neolithic age ; while a skeleton discovered in the '' Bocksteinhoehle," 

 not far from Bissingen, and believed by some to be of quaternary 

 origin, has been shown to be that of a suicide, buried in the cave in 

 1730. A human femur has been discovered in a cave named '' Hohle- 

 fels," near Schelklingen, in the valley of the Ach, and the same cave 

 yielded bones of quaternary mammals, but it is not certain that the 

 human specimen came from undisturbed quaternary deposit, and 

 hence its age must remain uncertain. 



