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The first part of this report will be devoted to the ancient osteological discoveries made in Austria-Hungary. The quaternary archeological deposits of this country are divided into two large groups, namely those which occur in the loess that covers a great portion of the surface of the Empire, and those which are found in caves. The latter are again divided into two classes, one, the more ancient, belonging to the lower layers of the cavern deposits and characterized by only the lower-paleolithic implements of a very primitive nature—the other distinguished by the presence of flint implements of definite and much varied forms as well as by bone implements, and belonging to the more recent Magdalenian culture. The industry represented in the loess finds is typically Solutrean and belongs chronologically between the two of the caves. This fact has been established by stratigraphic observations, particularly in western Europe, and is supported by the clear separation between the objects of the cave and the loess finds, even where such deposits existed in immediate vicinity.

The old-paleolithic stations of Austria-Hungary show especially implements of atypical forms, with which are mixed comparatively few Mousterian varieties.

According to the writer's now chronological table the sites of quaternary man in Austria-Hungary, which have yielded with other objects remains of the human skeleton, range as follows:

III. Glacial period.

3. Interglacial period.

(a) Warm—Krapina (Croatia).

(b) Cool—Šipka (Moravia): possibly also somewhat later.

IV. Glacial period.

Postglacial time.

(a) Last loess phase (Solutrean)—Willendorf (Lower Austria) Predmost; Brno (Brünn) (Moravia).

(b) Magdalenian culture—Gudenushoehle (Lower Austria).

Louě (Lautsch), Lichenstein cave (Moravia).

Archeological remains of the quaternary man are frequent, those of skeletal nature are rare. I shall give the discoveries belonging to this category of the finds in their chronological order.

In northern Moravia, 10 kilometers east of Nový Jičín, is the Jurassic mountain Kotouč. This mountain, which is visible from afar