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beds, according to the observations of the geologists of Rome, precede the final stages 
of volcanic activity in Latium, and mark the close of a well-defined stage of the local _ 
volcanic outbreak. They can be synchronised with the Riss-Wurm inter-glacial 
interval. 
With the discovery of this Roman skull an anthropological void is filled in the 
pleistocene of Italy. Certainly it is to Neanderthal man that belong the most certain 
vestiges of Mousterian industry, found in the alluvial districts of the Roman Campagna. — 
He was contemporary with the great extinct mammals which characterised the 
so-called warm-climate fauna, and witnessed, if only for part of the time, the volcanic 
occurrences which assailed the district which he inhabited. 
The Neanderthaloids, the first discoveries of which seemed to locate them in a 
limited region of Europe, are now shown by the subsequent and more recent traces 
of the last few years, culminating in this Roman find, to consist of different varieties 
more or less related, which, originating perhaps in the African Continent, spread over 
all the Mediterranean basin. Italy, plunged in the midst of that sea, began to 
exercise then, from the first apparition of the most ancient stock, that function as 
a centre of attraction to peoples, to which it was fated by its geographical position 
and surrounding conditions, which continue to develop in the ages which follow, 
and culminate in the historic periods. Together with that function, it served as a 
bridge and a station for fresh morphological and cultural evolution of the men who 
were advancing to the conquest of European lands. 
Dr. R. Broom.—Early Man in South Africa. 
Prof. C. G. Setieman, F.R.S.—Human Hybrids. 
Dr. ©. van Rrer Lows.—Early Paleolithic Cultures in South Africa. 
Prof. Mrs. A. C. L. Dononucu.—A Luba Tribe in Katanga: Customs and — 
Folk-lore. 
AFTERNOON. 
Prof. G. Exuiot Surtu, F.R.S.—Peking Man. 
Tuesday, September 29. 
Dr. Camppeti THompson.—Three Seasons’ Excavations at Nineveh.* 
These three seasons were undertaken on behalf of the British Museum at Nineveh, — 
initially with funds provided by that institution, Miss Gertrude Bell’s bequest, the 
Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, Merton College, Oxford, the Society of Antiquaries 
and others, and finally by Sir Charles Hyde, Bart., who has borne all the charges 
of more than two seasons, thus making possible yet another season. I was 
accompanied by Mr. Hutchinson for the first two, and by Mr. Hamilton for the third, 
and. peek p! by my wife, Miss Campbell Shaw, and Miss Marion Hallett for various 
periods. 
It will be remembered that the Palaces of Sennacherib and of Ashurbanipal had 
been discovered in the last century. In 1904 Dr. L. W. King and I had found a second 
small palace of Sennacherib, and after he had gone home the Temple of Nabu came to 
light. In 1927 this latter was cleared, the work showing that it had been built on a 
large and solid platform of unburnt brick round a rectangular courtyard. The 1929 
season excavated the site of the Palace of Ashurnasirpal, which had been found 
during the last few days of the 1927 season, a building so much restored by successive 
builders, who had re-used the valuable burnt bricks of which it was composed, that 
* With Mr. R. W. Hutchinson (1927, 1929) and Mr. R. W. Hamilton (1930). A film 
on this subject was shown at the Imperial Institute. ; 
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