MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
accidentally or by laborers ignorant of their importance, 
but through prolonged, painstaking exploration. 
The bones themselves are for the most part fragmen- 
tary, which is much to be regretted; but they represent, 
as now estimated, over twenty individuals, and they show 
on the one hand such similarity and on the other such 
variation of structure that they are of great value to the 
student of ancient humanity. 
The Krapina rock-shelter is an ancient, not very deep 
hollow, worn in the basic sandstone by the Krapinica, 
now a small stream, and subsequently filled with water- 
worn stones, some alluvia, and much detritus resulting 
from the decomposing rock of the hollow. Since the 
formation of the latter, the Krapinica has cut its channel 
so that it now flows eighty-two feet, or twenty-five meters, 
below its floor level. 
Before and while the shelter was being filled it was uti- 
lized by the early men of the region, at first occasionally, 
later, for some time perhaps, continuously; and the ac- 
cumulations in the cave were augmented by the remains 
of fireplaces and by refuse, including many primitive stone 
implements and rejects as well as animal bones. These 
accumulations were found to contain numerous human 
bones in more or less fragmentary condition. 
The locality became known in 1895, after two Croatian 
teachers discovered in the superficial deposits of the cave 
some teeth of a rhinoceros and fragments of other fossil 
bones. These finds were brought to the attention of the 
scientific men at Zagreb (the capital of Croatia, formerly 
“Agram”’), but no thorough examination of the site was 
undertaken until 1899. In that year the place was visited 
by K. Gorjanovic-Kramberger, professor of geology and 
paleontology of the University of Zagreb and Director of 
the Geological Division of the Narodni Muzej of the same 
city. 
The deposits in the shelter and their stratification were 
found well exposed. They were over twenty-six feet in 
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