Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . l animal bones in the same stratawith the human remains, and to the mineralization of the latter, theopinion was advanced that the human remains were of the same ageas the animal bones, which would relegate them to the early partof the Quaternary. This was not sustained by an anthropological study of the case andof the remains. The human bones show no signs of weathering,gnawing, or trampling, and the two skeletons were represented byso many parts, that the only satisfactory explanation of the conditionscan be found in
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . l animal bones in the same stratawith the human remains, and to the mineralization of the latter, theopinion was advanced that the human remains were of the same ageas the animal bones, which would relegate them to the early partof the Quaternary. This was not sustained by an anthropological study of the case andof the remains. The human bones show no signs of weathering,gnawing, or trampling, and the two skeletons were represented byso many parts, that the only satisfactory explanation of the conditionscan be found in the assumption that the remains are those of inten-tional burials. 26 SMITHSONIAX MISCKLLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 ^^^^^^^^^^B ? ? cw-. • j^H -.; ^iH ^^^H J^IP ^^^^H •/^JIllfil^JtM t « H ^HM ^^^^1 l^. y ^^ ^^^ 1 ^^ .7, ^^H ^^ > r. ? ^j^^^^^l ^^^1 ^^k \^ - ^^^^H 1^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^H ^^^^^^ •,;h^^I ^^^^^^^^^^H ^^^^^ ^ ? Fig. 29.—The Vero skull (Skeleton No. II). top view. Reconstructed at theU. S. National Museum. NO. 1/ SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I916 Fig. 30.—The Vero skull (Skeleton No. II), right side. 28 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 The pottery and the l^one and stone implements are all identicalwith similar artifacts of the Florida or south-eastern Indians; whilethe human bones themselves show without exception modern fea-tures, with numerous characteristics which ])ermit their identificationalso as Indian. The conclusions arrived at are, that the Aero finds representanother of those cases, which are bound to occur from time to time,where the circumstances seem to point to antiquity of the humanbones, but where a thorough all-sided inquiry shows that the massof the evidence is decisively against such an assumption. Ales Hrdlicka. TRIP TO FORT MYERS REGION, WEST COAST OF FLORIDA bollowing- the visit to Aero a trip was made to Fort Myers, Fla.,and to several of the outlying keys, where human remains werereported. The particular object of this
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