[Buried Pleistocene human remains of Weissenthurm, Mayen-Koblenz district: new and old information]].
The landscape at central Rhine and Mosel is one of the most famous archaeological sites in middle Europe. A layer of pumicetufa from the eruption of the lake Laacher volcano 13,000 years B.P. is an important mark which approximately divides the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic period. Although numerous excavations in this area have been carried out, quaternary hominid remains are quite rare. A few short notes from the early 1920s reports of human bones "below the pumice, in Weissenthurm, District Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate". However, these remains were probably destroyed in the Second World War in Munich on April 25, 1944. Recently, some new information has appeared on the discovery and the whereabouts of these fragments. The chronological classification of the Weissenthurm-hominid into the Pleistocene based on this information remains uncertain.
Flohr
Stefan
S
Institut der Anthropologie und Humangenetik für Biologen der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. flohr@anthropology.uni-frankfurt.de
von Berg
Axel
A
Protsch von Zieten
Reiner
R
D000818:Animals; D000885:Anthropology, Physical / Q000266:history*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology*; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D015186:Hominidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010164:Paleopathology / Q000266:history*