. Scientific American Volume 75 Number 17 (October 1896) . WORRELLS COFFEE DRIER-SECTIONAI i-ig. COFFEE DRIER. A Neolithic Burial Oiound. The discovery at Worms of a burying ground belong-ing to the later stone age, by Dr. Koehl, the conserva-tor of the Paulus Museum there, is. in view of the rarityof such graves, an important archijeological event, saysthe London Standard. Up to the present about seventygraves have been examined, or only a part of this bury-ing ground of neolithic man, and already the numberof the vessels found, most of them very tastefully orna-mented, ex
. Scientific American Volume 75 Number 17 (October 1896) . WORRELLS COFFEE DRIER-SECTIONAI i-ig. COFFEE DRIER. A Neolithic Burial Oiound. The discovery at Worms of a burying ground belong-ing to the later stone age, by Dr. Koehl, the conserva-tor of the Paulus Museum there, is. in view of the rarityof such graves, an important archijeological event, saysthe London Standard. Up to the present about seventygraves have been examined, or only a part of this bury-ing ground of neolithic man, and already the numberof the vessels found, most of them very tastefully orna-mented, exceeds one hundred. Not the slightest traceof a metal has as yet been discovered in the graves ; onthe other hand, the presence of arm rings of blue andgray slate is curious. In the most recently opened gravesof women three arm rings made of slate were removedfrom the upper arm of one skeleton, four from thatof another and six from the lower arm of a third skele-ton. In a mans grave there was on the neck of theskeleton a small conically polished ornament of syenite,not perforated, but provided
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