QUATERNARY HUMAN REMAINS IN CENTRAL EUROPE. 393 



(c) BADEN— HESSE. 

 DISCOVKRIES OF HUMAN BONES AT MOOSBACH, MANNHEIM, AND SEEIGENSTADT. 



In 1830 H. de Mayer announced the discovery of ancient human 

 bones at Moosbach. near Wiesbaden, without giving any information 

 as to their age. 



The two skulls of Mannheim were found, according to Schaif- 

 hausen, at the depth of 6 meters in the quaternary gravels of Neckar, 

 near the place where this stream joins the Rhine. Schafl'hausen 

 considered the specimens as quarternary, for the reason that they 

 were separated only a few feet from teeth of a mammoth and pre- 

 sented the same aspect. One of the skulls could not be preserved; 

 the other shows small size, the capacity being 1,320 cubic centimeters. 



The skull of Seligenstadt, in Ilesse, belonged to a skeleton which 

 lay 2 meters deep under modern alluvium and on quaternary gravel. 



The two last-named specimens were certainly deposited in the 

 gravel by the flooded rivers. Positive conclusions as to their age are 

 impossible. 



REMAINS OF HUMAN SKELETONS FROM LAHR. 



The stratigraphy of this find, made b}^ Ami Boue in 1823 (though 

 possibly at a later j^eriod), is uncertain, and there are other serious 

 doubts as to antiquity of the bones. 



((7) ALSACE. 

 THE SKULL OF EGISHEIM. 



If it is almost arbitrary to qualify the Cannstatt skull as quaternary, 

 it is quite possible to apply the same conclusion to that of Egisheim. 

 Its history is as follows : 



In 1865, according to Faudel, a fragmentary human skull was 

 found in the " normal " loess of a vineyard at the depth of 2| meters 

 below the surface. Animal bones dispersed through the same geo- 

 logical layer belonged to the horse, ox, deer, and mammoth. The 

 state of preservation of the human and the animal bones was the same. 



All the above indications are without absolute value. Schumacher, 

 who occupied himself more recently with the question of the age of 

 the skull, declares that according to Faudel it was found between 

 recent and ancient loess. Schumacher does not combat the opinion 

 that the specimen may be quaternarj^ 



In 1893 Gutmann discovered in a field in the vicinity of the same 

 hill from which came the skull of Egisheim, another cranium, 

 which is very similar to the former. In the same locality were 

 also found four neolithic tombs. An arm bone exhumed with the 



