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short, obliged to accept the facts as given, regardless of final inter- 

 pretations, i' 



The geographic range of these problematic discoveries extends 

 over the greater portion of the two Americas, continental and insular. 

 A tabular statement must suffice as a bird's-eye view of the distribu- 

 tion, which is as follows : ^® 



Canada finds 3 



United States of America finds (37 States) (49 accompanied by fossil 



fauna) 136 



Mexico finds (2 accompanied by fossil fauna) 5 



Central America finds 1 



Puerto Rico finds (2 accompanied by fossil fauna) 2 



Cuba finds (5 accompanied by fossil fauna) 6 



South America finds (18 accompanied by fossil fauna) 34 



The geologic range of the data in question is equally great and, 

 literally accepted, far more impressive. Without pretending to sup- 

 ply all available details, and without mentioning the more extreme if 

 not absurd claims, the following summary may be said roughly to 

 indicate the horizons of the apparently legitimate findings to date : 



Surface 17 



Recent : Bogs, springs, sand dunes, loess 11 



Pleistocene: Glacial drift, loess, Pampean formation 84 



Pliocene: Auriferous gravels, pre-Pampean formations 32 



Miocene : Auriferous gravels, pre-Pampean formations 7 



Oligoceue 1 



Eocene 2 



Indeterminate 23 



There remains to indicate the general character of the human relics 

 thus distributed in time and space. As elsewhere in the world, the 

 American discoveries comprise both skeletal parts and cultural ob- 

 jects made of such relatively imperishable materials as stone, shell, 

 bone, burnt clay, and charcoal — anything at all indicative of human 

 artifice and, therefore, commonly grouped under the comprehensive 

 term " artifacts." In presenting the list it may be instructive not 

 only to separate the individual occurrences according to the general 

 nature of the situation in which they were found, whether on the 

 surface of the ground, in cave deposits, or in ordinary open-air 

 geologic formation, but likewise to indicate the presence or absence 

 of associated extinct animal remains, which are normally regarded as 



" It is impractical here to cite the original sources, but nearly every treatise on 

 American archeology supplies some, either first or second hand. See, for example : 

 Beuchat, H., Manuel d'archajologie americaine, Paris, 1912 ; Hay, O. P., Amer. Anthrop., 

 vol. 15, pp. 1-36, 1918; Hrdlifka, A., Bulls. 3.3, 52, 66, Bur. Amer. Ethnol., 1907, 1912, 

 1918 ; Wright, G. F., Man and the glacial period, 1912. 



