MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
Krapina shelter amounts to approximately 1,000, but 
most of these are waste and rejects. They are mainly 
of flint but occasionally also of quartz, chalcedony, and 
jasper. The better-characterized specimens are “‘typi- 
cally Mousterian” (Obermaier), and this applies to all 
layers. 
The collective human skeletal remains recovered from 
the Krapina shelter, though very fragmentary, are more 
numerous than those found in any other locality of similar 
age. They comprise many parts of the skull, numerous 
portions of the jaws ranging from fragments to nearly 
complete mandibles, many teeth, and numerous pieces of 
other parts of the skeleton. 
The bones represent, as already mentioned, the remains 
of at least twenty individuals of both sexes, ranging from 
childhood to ripe adult age. The fragmentation of the 
skulls, lower Jaws, and some of the long bones is excessive 
and of such a nature as strongly to suggest that it was 
caused otherwise than by accidental breaking or crushing. 
A number of the fragments show also the effects of burn- 
ing, and one specimen, a portion of the supraorbital part 
of a frontal, presents some cuts. These different condi- 
tions, together with the absence of many parts of the skulls 
and bones, the total lack of association of the fragments, 
and the commingling of the human with the animal bones, 
led Gorjanovi¢é-Kramberger to the opinion, now generally 
shared, that the remains represent the leavings of occa- 
sional cannibalistic feasts and are not burials. 
The Krapina bones are whitish, yellowish, or light 
brownish in color. They are not of great weight, but a 
chemical examination has shown that they are much 
altered in constitution, particularly in the fluorine-phos- 
phates proportions. 
The long bones and others of the skeleton show the 
Krapina man to have been, as compared with the central 
European white man of today, of moderate stature and, 
except for the powerful jaws, of strong though not exces- 
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