MAN FROM THE FARTHEST PAST 
parts lay in a block of the stone and were found, with the 
rest of the defective parts of the skeleton, to be of but 
secondary scientific importance; but the lower jaw with 
its nine well-preserved teeth was a document of value 
and as such was submitted also to Hans Virchow and is 
described with the adult mandible in his memoir. 
In addition to the preceding, several other finds of 
human remains were made in Fischer’s Quarry, lying im- 
mediately behind Kaempfer’s workings. They included a 
number of fine stone implements and two pieces of a 
human parietal, and were, like the child’s skeleton, in- 
closed in the solid rock. About 1922, in the right-hand 
section of Kaempfer’s Quarry, a blast in the travertine 
above its middle revealed, as Doctor Hrdlitka was told, a 
portion of ahuman femur. Fossil animal bones and worked 
flints were found on numerous other occasions. Finally, 
on September 21, 1925, a blast in the lower travertine of 
Fischer’s Quarry, in a block 55 feet (16.7 m.) from the 
surface, brought to light pieces of a young adult human 
skull. Of these additional human skeletal remains, the 
skull, after being most carefully disengaged from the 
rock and reconstructed, has been thoroughly studied and 
the results published by Weidenreich. 
The origin of the travertine units at and near Weimar 
has been attributed to precipitation of lime from waters 
furnished by mineral springs. The formation of the de- 
posits was evidently very gradual, leaving an ample op- 
portunity for human habitation about the pools. As to 
their dates, German geologists ascribe the lower layers of 
the travertine to the last (Riss-Wirm) interglacial; the 
upper limestone layers are doubtless more recent. 
The 1925 skull specimen presents some of the distinctly 
Neanderthaloid characteristics, such as a complete and 
still rather heavy torus and the somewhat protruding 
broad occiput, flattened from above and hollowed out 
below, typical of the Neanderthal crania. But with these 
inferior features there is a higher and well-arched forehead, 
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