The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-01-13
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55s,5 Nuesch IN Switxexland.

Remarkable O1DCOveR4eDM Made by Dr.
Nuesch IN switxerland.
# DR.. Nuesch has made some interest.
ing discoveries in rock shelter at B
Schweizersbild, near Schanhausen.
The entire series Of deposits, 24O to 200
centimeters in thickness, are estimated
to represent q period Of from "a, 900 to-
$4,000 years from the glacial period to
the present time. DR.. Geikie b thus
sums up what DR.. 4Nussch has done:
':His work has demonstrated that
tundra, ssteppeE and forest faunas have 1
succeeded each other, thus establish
ing the truth of differences alreadyar
rived at by Nehring and Others. 1t has
shown, likewise, that this faunal sue
cession followed after the retreat the
great: glaciers ! of the third glacial
epoch, and that palaeolithic man was
certainly contemporaneous in the Al
pine Vorland with the tundra and the
steppe faunas. Further, it introduces
us for the: first time to the lost race OF
neolithic pygmies. Lastly, we have in ]
the Schweizersbild rock shelter tho.
most complete section yet discovered,
showing the exact succession of the
several archaeological epochs, the
palaeolithic, neolitbic, bronze and iron
ages" =
A touching glimpse is given of the
homelove of the neolithic men who
lived from 1900 to 5000 years ago:
Among the neolithio interments ten
were of children--three of these new
born infants, while the others were re-
spectiyely three months, two years,
-four years and seven years old when
they died. Two of the infants had
been buried with their mothers and
! their graves contained no relics, while
those: of the, other children. did, the
relics consisting of shells and finely
| finished flint implements. The great
care with which the graves had been
/ constructed and the presence OF the
ornaments and other valuable objects
placed beside his dead little onessshow
how strong was neolithic mans fam
lily affection. The newborn infants
/ were laid each within the right arm of
it's mother, while, with the left arm
stretched across her breast, the latter
seemed to hold the little one FAST
The same generation which learned
through H. NJ. Stanley of the actual ex-
istence Of pygmies in the forests of
central Africa now discovers from these
Swiss remains that a race of pygm1ies
! fourished in Europe thousands of
years ago: ''The examination of the
skeletons Of IA adults shows that dur
ing neolithic times the Schweizersbild
was frequented by two distinctly diff
ferent races. One of these was of fair
stature $500 millimeters and more),
| while the other was much smaller-a
true pygmy race. Prof. Kollmann, who
has described the remains, is quite GER
tain that the dwarfike proportions of
the latter have nothing in common with
diseased conditions. This, from many
points of view, is a highly interesting
discovery. It is possible, as DR.. Nuesch
suggests, that the widely spread legend
as to the former existence of little men,
dwarfs and gnomes, who were sup
posed to haunt caves and retired places
in the mountains, may be "reminiscences
of these. neolithic pygmies. scottish
Geographical Magazine.