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I. CAVES.—The cave of Vypustek, near Brünn, in Moravia, was systematically explored, from April to end of October, 1879, under the superintendence of the Committee, appointed by the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna, for Prehistoric Investigations. The ossiferous layer, four to five metres thick, and covered with a thin, stalagmite, is a non-stratified breccia of sand, loam, pebbles, and angular stones, with bones of “diluvial ”mammals abundantly, but irregularly, dispersed. Most of the bones are fragmentary; many of the pieces are rolled, and even polished, by friction. Bones of Ursus spelœus predominate. Eight to ten per cent, belong to thirty other mammalian species. Some bones have evidently been gnawed by porcupines. In a side cave, layers of charcoal and ashes, with fragments of rudely-worked stone implements and bones of domestic animals, showed it to have been once resorted to by human beings.
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Prehistoric Antiquities of the Austrian Empire 1 . Nature 21, 457 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021457a0
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