Identifier: annualreportofbo1909smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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s fauna. The lemming reappears at the baseof the sixth deposit, which is surmounted by a characteristic upperMagdalenian industry. The horizon that interests us most is the seventh, called by Schmidt Mesolithik, and coordinate with the Asylian. The layer is onlyabout 5 centimeters • thick except at two points where pockets areformed that reach to the level of the Solutrean deposit. The com-pact earth in these pockets was impregnated with red ochre, and ineach was a circular group of human crania covered with powderedochre. All the crania, twenty-seven in one group and six in the other,were placed so as to face the setting sun. A large majority in eachgroup were skulls of females and children, there being in all but sixmale skulls. The burials of the heads without the bodies wer2 madewhile the flesh was still on as the lower jaw and one or several cervical Die vorgeschichtliclaeii Kultiuen der Ofnet. Bericlit des naturwissenschaftl.Vereins fiir Schwaben und Neuberg (E. V.). 85, 1908.
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t> o ANTIQUITY OF MAN IN EUEOPE MACCURDY. 579 vertebrae were found in place with each cranium. The skulls of thefemales and children were accompanied by necklaces of perforatedstag canines and shells (Planorhis), The skulls were neither burntnor mutilated. With the possible exception of a Tardenoisian flint point, there isnothing in this horizon to suggest the neolithic; no ceramics, no re-mains of domesticated animals, although the neolithic is well repre-sented in the succeeding deposit. In respect to fauna and stratigra-phy, it is Asylian. Two typical Asylian cultural elements—flat har-poons of stag horn and painted pebbles—are missing, however.Schmidt classes the industry as Asylo-Tardenoisian. The burial cus-tom leans rather to the paleolithic. The use of ochre and of shellornaments is common to a number of paleolithic burials: Asylianof Mas dAzil; Magdalenian of Cro-Magnon, Laugerie-Basse,Grimaldi, and Placard; and Solutrean of Briinn (Moravia). Thepractice of burying the

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