. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 32. SscI ion showin'; tha goological iiosilion of flie Linsing skolcton. a, Tannol: ft, location of find. epoch and others advocating the view that it is probably postglacial and compai-atively recent. The name is given to a partially dis- membered human skeleton found in 1902 under 20 feet of undis- turbed silt, 70 feet in from the face of a Missouri Eiver blutf (hg. ?>2). The bones lay partly under a large limestone slal) imbedded in a mass of talus at the foot of a shale and limestone clitf against which the silt had been deposited. The silt deposit was probab
. Bulletin. Ethnology. Fig. 32. SscI ion showin'; tha goological iiosilion of flie Linsing skolcton. a, Tannol: ft, location of find. epoch and others advocating the view that it is probably postglacial and compai-atively recent. The name is given to a partially dis- membered human skeleton found in 1902 under 20 feet of undis- turbed silt, 70 feet in from the face of a Missouri Eiver blutf (hg. ?>2). The bones lay partly under a large limestone slal) imbedded in a mass of talus at the foot of a shale and limestone clitf against which the silt had been deposited. The silt deposit was probably due to an uj^building partly by wash, partly by winds, partly by creep from the adjacent hills, partly by sediment from the JNIissouri. It appears that this de- posit, while possibly geologically ancient is not necessarily so and may be comparatively recent. The bones themselves do not give countenance to the theory of great antiquity.^ According to Ilrdlicka - the skull i^ not perceptibly fossilized, and is practically identical in type Avith crania of the historic Indians of the general region (fig. 83). It has 1 The history of the discovery of the specimen is g-iven by Wright in Proc. Boston l^oc. Nat. Hist., January, ISOO, February, 1S9L 's statement regarding tlie age of the formations involved is given in the same connection. Its authenticity is questioned by Powell in Poj). i^ci. Munthhj, July, 1S9.'>. See also Handbook of .Vmerican Indians, art. 'Nampii IwiKjp. " The Lansing Skeleton, p. Fig. 33. Frontal view of the Lansing skull, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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