. Bulletin. Ethnology. hrdli^ka] SKELETAL EEMAINS OP EARLY MAN 199 In a discussion concerning the memoir before the society ^ the secretary, Senor Zeballos, stated in reply to some objections, that the committee acted as it did in refusing the memoir because "its author had committed a fundamental error, attributing a very remote age to objects which were hardly three or four centuries old, and had declared fossil that wliich is contemporaneous with the modern ; In 1878, after much further discussion of the subject, and a second failure of the Argentine Scientific Society to
. Bulletin. Ethnology. hrdli^ka] SKELETAL EEMAINS OP EARLY MAN 199 In a discussion concerning the memoir before the society ^ the secretary, Senor Zeballos, stated in reply to some objections, that the committee acted as it did in refusing the memoir because "its author had committed a fundamental error, attributing a very remote age to objects which were hardly three or four centuries old, and had declared fossil that wliich is contemporaneous with the modern ; In 1878, after much further discussion of the subject, and a second failure of the Argentine Scientific Society to publish the resubmitted. Fig. 44. Transverse section of the stream Frias, demonstrating the geologic constitution of tlie strata at the point where the fossil man of Mercedes was found, together with a plan of the excavation made in exhuming the remains. 1. The water-level; 2. A thin layer of gravel found in excavating on the right side of the stream—material deposited by the stream which it had washed from more elevated portions of its bed; 3. A layer of vegetal mold 10 cm. in thickness, which contains numerous bones of domestic animals introduce<l into the country since its occupation by Europeans; 4. A stratum 40 cm. in thickness, containing the bones of animals indigenous to the country; 5. A very clayey stratum 20 cm. in thickness, containing the bones of extinct species of animals but in a poor state of preservation; 6. A marly layer 30 cm. in thickness, in which the bones of the great extinct mammals, Mylodon, Glyp- todon, etc., are found; 7. A layer 60 cm. in thickness, not nearly so marly as the preceding; also contains remains of extinct animals; 8. A layer cm. in thickness, of a reddish color, composed exclusively of fine sand and clay mixed together; 9. Stratum which contained tlie human bones. Stratum No. 9, which is more than m. in thickness, is distinguished from the preceding only in that it contains a larger proportion of clay. In this layer of Pam
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