Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 1. The PaleolithicPeriod (ending10,000-8,000B. C. ) . ThePodbaba skull. 2. The NeolithicPeriod (ending2000-1500 ). b. 3. TransitionalPeriod, a,, b, Northern phases,e, Westernphase, d, South-ern and south-eastern phase. 4. The OlderBronze Period.(1200-800 ) Fig. 2.—Characteristic objects and crania from the older culturesof the Czechoslovak Territories. 476 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. developments. The people of this period buried their dead in thecontracted or fetus-in-utero position, with the body l
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 1. The PaleolithicPeriod (ending10,000-8,000B. C. ) . ThePodbaba skull. 2. The NeolithicPeriod (ending2000-1500 ). b. 3. TransitionalPeriod, a,, b, Northern phases,e, Westernphase, d, South-ern and south-eastern phase. 4. The OlderBronze Period.(1200-800 ) Fig. 2.—Characteristic objects and crania from the older culturesof the Czechoslovak Territories. 476 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. developments. The people of this period buried their dead in thecontracted or fetus-in-utero position, with the body lying on itsside. With the body were buried various mortuary offerings, par-ticularly pottery. The multitude of objects known as a result fromthis period permits us to recognize the influence on the populationof southwestern, western, northwestern, and northern, besidessouthern and southeastern cultures. There was evidently a very freecontact with the outside world. Besides cultural influences, however, there were also during thisperiod actual influxes of other peo
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