by Professor Cocchi in a railway cutting at Olmo,[1] near Arezzo, at a depth of about 15 mètres from the surface. It is preserved in the museum at Florence; is well formed and long, and of a high type. The conditions, however, of its discovery seem to me to be very unsatisfactory. It was found after a slip in the sides of the cutting, and there is no evidence that the stratum in which it had been imbedded had not been disturbed. A flint implement was found with it, which is pronounced by Mr. Evans to belong to a well-known Neolithic type. This stamps the age of the skull to be Neolithic and not Pleiocene; a conclusion which, indeed, might have been arrived at from its identity with a type of skull extremely common in Europe at that time.
Fig. 19.—Fragment of Cut Rib from the Tuscan Pleiocenes.
A second case of the reputed occurrence of traces of man in Pleiocene strata is founded on a series of cut bones obtained from the Pleiocenes of Tuscany by Mr. Lawley, and preserved in the Museum at Florence. These specimens, which have been figured and described
- ↑ Cocchi, Mem. della Soc. Ital. di Sc. Nat. ii. No. 7. Milano, 1867. Forsyth Major, Soc. Ital. di Antropologia e di Etnologia, 20 April 1876.
