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Rh real objects of art, approaching closely the chefs-d'œuvre of the glyptic period in France. It is regrettable that a thorough description of these collections is still wanting.

The great scientific value of the Předmost finds is augmented by the discoveries of human bones. Wankel found a portion of a human lower jaw, belonging apparently to an adult female. It is preserved in the museum in Olomouc, and is undoubtedly of quaternary age. It is figured by Wankel in the Časopis Musejní Společnosti, Olomouc, 1884, page 96, and by Maška in his Der diluviale Mensch in Maehren, 1886, page 103. Besides this, Kříž, in his most recent publication (Beitrage zur Kenntniss des Quartaers in Maehren, 1903, pp. 236–268, with figures) describes a series of human skeletal remains from the Předmost excavations, found by himself, and including a skull of a 12-year-old child, 2 fragments of lower jaws from young subjects, 18 pieces of skulls, 2 humeri, 2 ulnæ, a portion of a radius, and parts of 2 femurs; in all, the remains of about 6 individuals. In front of the skull of the child are still fixed some bones and teeth of the blue fox. The conscientious methods of Kříž permit of no doubt that all these bones belong to the undisturbed quaternary layers which have yielded the numerous archeological specimens.

The discoveries of human bones by Maška at Předmost have not yet been published in detail. From personal information which the writer obtained from him, Maška found a sepulchre containing 14 complete skeletons and the remains of 6 other individuals. Ten skulls, of which 6 belonged to adults and 1 to adolescents, are completely restored. They are dolichocephalic, and those of males have well-developed supraorbital arches. The length of the femurs shows that the people were of tall stature. Hradisko furnished also some geologically recent burials, but the bones discovered by Maška are separated from all of these by plain stratigraphic evidence. The quaternary archeological deposits lay above these skeletal remains, which were found in general beneath those of a more recent origin. There were also different coloration of the bones and different modes of burial. According to Maška's records, the bodies in the quarternary burials were completely surrounded with a wall of stones, a usage practiced to this day by arctic peoples. Nevertheless the bones of blue foxes and of wolves show that these animals succeeded in gaining approach to the human bodies and in destroying some parts of them. This explains also the isolated finds of Wankel and Kříž. Nothing was found buried with the skeletons. One of the individuals, a child, had about its neck a collar made of 14 small ivory pearls, looking like those which have been recovered in the middle or Solutrean layer at Spy.

The stratigraphic evidence shows incontestably that there was at Předmost an intentional sepulcher, dating very probably to an epoch