" V KA] BKKLKTAI. IU M MNS 



ling lower j:i\v. >uch a might IM- r\j ,.(., I in L'.-ologically ancient 

 iniin. The teeth an- <f ordinary i hey an- worn olF to a quite 



marked extent, a condition which point- in rather coar-c vegetable 

 diet, a ml i- general among Indian- a fter early middle age. The canines 

 in no \\ay morphologically peculiar, hut their points have been 

 \\orn off lo the level of the inci-or-: thi- ha|i|M>ns invariably, unless 

 the teeth HIT displaced, a- the process of attrition advances. 



There is, on the whole, nothing connected with the remnants of the 

 1'enon skeleton which would indicate man of a type earlier than, or 

 radically di (Fen-tit from, the Indian. 



XII. THE CRANIA OF TREXTOX 



There is no other region oji this continent that has l>een brought a- 

 conspicuously to the attention of archcologists and students of man's 

 antiquity as that along the Delaware river in and about Trenton, New 

 Jersey. This district is rich in deposits of glacial gravels, and for 

 nearly thirty years these have IXMMI searched wherever exposed for the 

 remains of early man and his art. For nearly twenty years, with a 

 few intermissions. Prof. F. W. Putnam, of the Pealxxly Museum, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, has carried on. principally through Mr. 

 E. \ r olk, careful explorations of these gravels, with the view of deter- 

 mining the question of man's presence in the Delaware valley before 

 the advent there of the Indian. The deposits in the valley have 

 yielded many remains and relics of the Lenape (I)ela wares), who 

 occupied it up to and even for some time after the apj>earanee of the 

 whites. They have yielded also implements which were thought to 

 l>elong to an earlier culture, and parts of human skeletons of a seem- 

 ingly earlier people. Unfortunately, the geological evidence of the 

 presence of early man in the region is not conclusive, and the age of 

 many of the remains is still unsettled. The idea that during post- 

 (ilacial time or even before the close of the Glacial period man lived 

 where Trenton now stands has found adherents, but the best-qualified 

 students of the question, including Professor Putnam himself, main- 

 tain a careful reserve. 



It was under these circumstances that the writer was invited 

 by Professor Putnam, in 1898, to examine all the osteological 

 material recovered in the Delaware valley and to determine what 

 the anatomical features of the remains indicate as to the antiquity of 

 the Trenton man. A detailed account of this examination was pub- 

 lished in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Xatural Hitttory, 

 in 1WVJ, and the essentials are here given, with additional observations 

 l >ax-d on the \\ liter's more recent knowledge of certain reports on 

 crania. 



