The International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology at Lisbon.Source: The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 10(1881), p. 462Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2841550 .

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462 Anthropologixcal lisccllarnea.

THE INTEICNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PREHISTORRC ARcHAM0LOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY AT LISBON.1

MR. JOIN EvANs gave a short account of this Congress, at which he had bsen present in the capacity of Delegate from the Institute. For all detailed particulars he referred to the Comnpte-ren,du of the Congress, which will shortly be published, but he gave some par- ticulars of two of the excursions. One of these was to Mujem, on the banks of the Tagus, io view some interesting kj6kkenmdddings of much the same general character as those in Denmark, at the base of which, however, were numerous interments of human bodies laid in a contracted position. The other was to Otta, to inspect the beds in which it was thought that traces of man living in Miocene times had been discovered. This discovery had been accepted as authentic by many members of the Congress, but Mr. Evans had not been satisfied as to the undoubtedly human origin of the single bulbs of percussion on the flints, nor as to their actually forming integral parts of the beds in or on which they were found, nor as to the geological antiquity of the beds them- selves. On most of the flints the bulbs were such as might have arisen from natural shocks, and there was no sign of the flints themselves having been used. Others apparently beloniged to the surface, and were of no great antiquity. The sands and gravels of Otta, though probably of Tertiary origin, appear to bave been dis- turbed at a later period, as their surface forms a plateau of consider- able extent, and at a lower level than the undisturbed Miocene beds containing remains of Hipparion, &c., which in some parts form the border of the plateau.

The Mluseums in Lisbon were next noticed, and Mr. Evans called attention to the abundance of arrow-heads found in Portugal wlhich are barbed, but without a central tang, and to a number of lance- beads polished on each face, but chipped at the edges. He also mentioned the discovery in Spain of a bronze halberd-blade, with three long rivets, much resembling an Irish blade figured by Wilde, and recommended those who assigned an Iberian origini to some of the ancient inhabitants of Ireland more closely to examine the facts indicated.

I See Proceedings of January 11th.

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