ANCIENT REMAINS OF MAN HEDLICKA. 533 



Taking everything into consideration, it is evident that the diluvial 

 man of Krapina represents a group belonging to the family of the 

 Homo neanderthalensis. He is very ancient and in many respects 

 anatomically primitive, though he also shows in various details an 

 advancement toward the actual human form; and we can readily 

 adopt Prof. Gorjanovic-Kramberger's opinion that morphologically 

 the Kra]3ina man is not any special, collateral, and extinct branch of 

 the genus Homo, but more pi'obably a direct and not excessively far 

 distant ancestoi- of the Homo sapiens. 



THE PLEISTOCENE MAN OF JERSEY (ENGLAND). 



In 1910 Messrs. Nicolle and Sinel, of the Island of Jersey, gave 

 notice in Man and in a bulletin of the Jersey Society,^ of the dis- 

 covery in an old cave on the Island of Jersey of twelve highly in- 

 teresting human teeth, belonging to a man of the Mousterian epoch. 

 The principal details of the find, according to the clear account pre- 

 sented by the two authors and confirmed by the writer's observations 

 on the spot, are as follows : 



The cave where the ancient human remains were found is known 

 as La Cotte, or La Cotte de St. Brelade, and is situated in a rough 

 irregular cliff near the eastern horn of St. Brelade's Baj'-, Jersey. 

 At this part of the island granite rocks, considerably weathered and 

 broken, rise steeply to about 200 feet above mean tide level, the shore 

 at their base being covered with accumulations of large, rounded, 

 waterworn bowlders (pis. 29-31). 



In one part of these cliffs there is an irregular rough ravine or 

 gorge, about 40 feet in width, which penetrates inland about 150 

 feet. The side walls of this ravine are, in a large part, quite ver- 

 tical, and in the base of these walls on the left, near the upper ter- 

 minus of the gorge, is a large cave which bears the above name. 



Before its exploration, the La Cotte cave was nearly filled by clay, 

 bowlders, and blocks fallen from the much-weathered roof, and 

 rubble drift in the form of a steeply sloping talus lay in front, ob- 

 scuring a large portion of the mouth. Removal of this drift re- 

 vealed the outline of the opening in the form of an irregular arch 

 (pi. 31). 



The first indication that the cave had once been utilized by man 

 dates from 1881, when two local naturalists, while " geologizing " on 

 that part of the coast, found a flint implement at the foot of the 

 talus, and, tracing its source, came upon a slightly exposed section 

 of the cave floor. There they found flint chippings, and one or two 

 bones, apparently of a large bird, but no importance was attached 

 to the discovery. About 1894, two members of the Societe Jersiaise, 



^ Nicolle, B. T., and J. Sinel. Report on the exploration of the palaeolithic cave 

 dwelling known as La Cotte, St. Brelade, Jersey. (Man. vol. 10, 1910, No. 102, pp. 185- 

 188. Reprinted in 36e Bulletin de la Soci(5t6 .Tersiaise, Jersey, p. 69.) 



