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there i- no |>o--ilility of definite racial determination. The specimen 

 bears evidence of what appear 1<> IK- traces of human workmanship: 

 tin- detail- of the>e. h<>\\ c\ IT. a- \\ell as the details of the phy-iral 

 examination and the archeology <>f the find, will IK? dealt with by 

 PmlVv-or Putnam. 



xiv. mi: LAXSIXO SKELETON 



Tlie -Ueleton of an adult and a portion of the lower jaw of an infant 

 were di>i -overed in February, UKhi, by the sons of Mr. M. Coneannon, 

 a farmer near Lansing, Kansas, in digging a tunnel which was to 

 MTve for storing apples and other farm products. This tunnel enters 

 horizontally into a low Ixnich or terrace situated at the base of the 

 Missouri river bluffs at the entrance to a small side valley. The, 

 child's jaw lay alxnit (>0 feet, the adult skeleton al>out 70 feet, from 

 the entrance of the tunnel and "20 feet lxlow the surface. The deposit 

 in which the lx>nes were embedded and which forms the bulk of the 

 U'nch is an undisturbed loess-like silt, through which at all levels an? 

 scattered fragments of limestone and shale, the whole presenting great 

 variety of composition and considerable irregularity of accumulation. 



The find Ix'came known to men of science through Mr. M. C. Long, 

 curator of the museum of Kansas City, who, on reading of the discov- 

 ery in a local pajx'r, immediately visited the locality in company with 

 Mr. E. Butts, a civil engineer. Before the end of 10OJ the locality 

 had lx?en visited and examined by many prominent geologists, and a 

 deep exploratory trench was sunk near the tunnel by Mr. (i. Fowke, 

 under the direction of Professor Holmes of the Bureau of American 

 Kthnology. Scientific reports concerning the find were published by 

 Williston, Upham, 6 Winchell/ Chamberlm/* Holmes/ and Fowke/ 

 It appears that no question has lx i en raised as to the correctness of the 

 accounts regarding the location of the human bones; but there an; 

 important differences of opinion concerning the geological age of the 

 dejxisits and consequently the antiquity of the skeleton. Without 

 going into details, it may be said that Professors Williston, Upham, 

 and Winchell favored a considerable antiquity for both the dejx>sits 

 and the specimens, regarding the former as true loess, while Profes- 

 ChainU'rlin, Calvin, Salisbury, and Holmes, with Fowke, judged 

 the dcpo-it- to Ixi not true loess but of a much more; recent formation. 



Science, Aujtnst 1. 19O2. 



/ViV/irr. August L'9, 19O'J ; American Ocolofilnt. September. 1902; America* AntHro- 

 ftologlgt, n. 8., ir, no. 3, r>00, 1902. 



"i.MV./n UrologiKt. September, 19O2. 



' Journal of Ocoloyv. October-November, 19O2 ; nlno notes by Calvin and Salisbury In 

 Ibid. 



Amcrh-nn .1 Mf/iro/i/>i. tint. n. ., IV, no. 4, 743-7.12. 1!>O2. 



' llullttin 30 of tin Uurttiu of American /.'f/Mi. ,/..././. pt. 1, 1907. 



