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face. The deposits above the first skeleton consisted partly of 
somewhat indurated and partly of ordinary sands, overlaid by a 
layer of marl. The marl when freshly exposed was found to be 
of the consistency of fresh mortar, but on longer exposure hardened 
to fairly solid rock. Above skeleton II, there was only muck and 
irregular sandy patches. 
Skeleton No. [ is that of a woman probably adult, skeleton No. II 
that of an adult man of somewhat advanced years. The bones of 
the former lay close together, those of the latter were dissociated 
though lying within a moderate-sized ellipse. Broken pottery, bone 
and stone implements, and stone chips, were found in the same 
strata, more particularly in the muck layers, with the human bones. 
Ftc. 28.—The locality of the Vero finds. 
Besides the two skeletons, single bones of three additional human 
bodies—one a child, one a young person and one an adult—were dis- 
covered in the vicinity. The human bones were considerably miner- 
alized and in the same strata in which they occurred are found many 
bones of long extinct animals such as mastodons, tapirs, etc. 
Due to the presence of the fossil animal bones in the same strata 
with the human remains, and to the mineralization of the latter, the 
opinion was advanced that the human remains were of the same age 
as the animal bones, which would relegate them to the early part 
of the Quaternary. 
This was not sustained by an anthropological study of the case and 
of the remains. The human bones show no signs of weathering, 
gnawing, or trampling, and the two skeletons were represented by 
so many parts, that the only satisfactory explanation of the conditions 
can be found in the assumption that the remains are those of inten- 
tional burials. 
