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Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate - The Mladec Caves and their Remains (Paperback, 2006)
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Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate - The Mladec Caves and their Remains (Paperback, 2006)
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The early Upper Palaeolithic human fossils from the Mladec ?
(Lautsch) cave (German Furst Johann's Hohle) are among the most
valuable inventories of the Vienna's Natural History Museum
(Naturhistorisches Museum Wien). They are closely associated with
the early history of the - seum, the Anthropological Department in
particular, and remain at the centre of scientific disc- sion on
the biological and cultural evolution of early modern humans. The
history of the retrieval and preservation of these finds is marked
by circumstances and events that are both fortunate and tragical.
Geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter and his assistant Josef
Szombathy played a key role in the discovery. Very successful in a
variety of positions, and acting for a number of institutions,
Hochstetter also played a specific role in establishing the
"science of man" in Vienna. President of the Geological Society and
First Director of the newly created imperial-royal Court Museum, he
founded the Anthropological-Ethnographical Depa- ment and became
its Director. The fact that he was also a Real Member of the
Academy of Sci- ces and chairman of the Prehistorical Commission of
the imperial Academy of Sciences, founded in 1878, was also of
particular importance in the context of early speleological
research. This Commission was entrusted the task of initiating and
promoting speleological investigations and "palaeo-ethnographical"
studies and excavations on Austrian territory and of preventing the
"- scientific exploitation of major sites for private purposes".
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