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PALEOLITHIC MAN IN CENTRAL EUROPE.-L'Abbe Breuil continues his account of his “voyage paleo-lithique” in Central Europe in L'Anthropologie, t. 34, No. 6. He now deals with finds in the loess of Moravia and Bohemia, which are to be described in two sections, the first, which is the present instalment, covering open-air shelters, and the second the caves. Three stations in Moravia are described: Premost, Ondraditz, and Brno (Brtinn). As regards the human remains found at Premost, L'Abbe Breuil is of the opinion that the view of Dr. Hrdlicka and Dr. Matiegka, that Premost man represents a cross between Neanderthal man and the Aurignacian races, cannot be maintained. The prominent supraorbital ridges cannot be regarded as a decisive criterion against the absence of characters such as the remarkable platycephaly, the development and specialised character of the face, of the nose and orbits, and the receding chin of Neanderthal man-characters which are far more significant than the prominence of the supraorbital ridges. The same applies to the Brno man. Both must be regarded as Aurignacian, differing from Aurignacian man in Western Europe, it is true, but also exemplifying the highly diversified character of the Cro-Magnon race, which was probably already a mixed race when it penetrated Europe.
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Research Items. Nature 115, 437–439 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115437a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115437a0