CHAPTER, VIII 
NEANDERTHAL MAN 
(Continued ) 
REMAINS OF Earty Man NEAR WEIMAR 
Tue little village of Ehringsdorf, in the Ilm valley, three 
kilometers from Weimar and about the same distance 
from Taubach, has become quite famous within the last 
two decades, on the one hand for its quarries, which yield 
a very. pure limestone (travertine), and on the other hand 
for the highly interesting animal and especially for the 
human remains that are constantly being found there. 
The travertine deposits, of diluvial origin, extend from 
Weimar to beyond Ehringsdorf. At the latter they are 
found in a low broad hill on the slope of which is the 
village. For many years past a portion of the hill over- 
looking the valley of the river Ilm has been exploited for 
the limestone, the works being known as Kaempfer’s 
Quarry. Herr Kaempfer was in fact still the owner of the 
place during Doctor Hrdlicka’s visits (1921, 1923) and is 
largely to be credited for the intelligent preservation of 
the paleontological as well as the human remains from 
his extensive workings. 
By 1914, the exposed rocky wall approximated forty 
feet in height. It showed gross horizontal stratification. 
A little below the middle could be seen a belt, about three 
feet thick, known as the “‘Pariser,” a largely consolidated 
loess formation; and beneath this in the left part of the 
quarry were the remains of a flat pocket of more or less con- 
solidated looser material in whichstone implements had been 
discovered with numerous evidences of human occupation. 
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