Palæolithic Man and Löss

Abstract

I HAVE just been reading Geikie's “Prehistoric Europe,” and am much interested by his digest of Dr. Nehring's discovery at Thiede and Westeregeln. At p. 150 it is stated that “the lower beds at Westeregeln have yielded traces of man such as flint flakes, charred wood, and heaps of smashed and crushed bones of various animals.” And further on, “that they could not have come from any distance, an inference which is in keeping with the generally unrolled character of the stones and the state of preservation of the fragments of wood.” At p. 151 he describes another interesting find by Count Wurmbrand near Zeiselberg. “At that place the undisturbed löss yielded a rich deposit of bones underneath which occurred a blackish stratum abounding with fragments of charcoal and worked flints.” From the general appearance presented by the human relics and animal remains (mammoth, rhinoceros, reindeer, &c.) “it was evident that they could not have been transported from any distance.”