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"3. The fossil man of Lagoa Santa is distinguished from the fossil 

 man of Europe by a number of characters, the most important of 

 which is the coexistence of dolichocephaly and h3^psistenocephaly. 



"4. In Brazil, as in Europe, fossil man left his descendants who 

 have contributed to the formation of the present populations. 



"5. Lacerda and Peixoto have with reason regarded the /race of 

 Botocudos as a result of a mixture of the fossil type of Lagoa Santa 

 with other etlmologic elements. 



"6. The number and the nature of these elements remain to be 

 determined, but one at least was br achy cephalic. 



"7. The fossil type of Lagoa Santa enters also in part into the 

 composition of the Ando-Peruvian populations and is found again 

 more or less pronounced in the littoral of the Pacific. 



"8. In Peru and in Bohvia the ethnic element of Lagoa Santa 

 manifests its presence quite as clearly as in Brazil. Nevertheless, 



(9) "it appears to have exercised a less general influence in Peru 

 than in Brazil. 



"10. The same etlinic element is found, according to all indica- 

 tions, elsewhere [in America] than in Brazil and Peru." 



At about this time or a little later, a new communication by 

 Lacerda,^ on the subject of the Lagoa Santa man, appeared. 



No new facts concerning the finds are given, but the author speaks 

 of skulls having forms related to those of the Lagoa Santa caves 

 from different parts of Brazil, and especially from the shell-heaps: 

 "There are in the Museum of Rio a dozen skulls found by Hartt 

 and his assistants in the samhaquis of the Provinces Parana and 

 Santa Catharina. Nearly all these have a sloping forehead; there 

 are even some in which the front is very sloping. The bones of the 

 vault are of a very considerable tliickness. They are all provided 

 with large lower jaws and with prominent and volummous cheek 

 bones. They are all dolichocephalic and more or less prognathic. "- 



Wear of the teeth, such as seen by Lund in the Sumidouro cave 

 crania and considered by him as of special significance, was found 

 equally in the sarnbaqui and other modern skulls. 



An interesting section of the paper deals with "metalhzation" of 

 bones. Speaking of the metalhc impregnation of the Lagoa Santa 

 specimens, Lacerda asks: "What space of time is necessary that 

 this metallic impregnation should become complete? And has it 

 need of special conditions of the environment to bring it about ? 



"It is not easy," he follows, "to give to-day an answer to these 

 questions. What remains beyond doubt is that such a metallization 



1 Lacerda, A. de, Documents pour servir a I'histoire de rhomme fossile du Bresil; in Mem. Soc. d'Anthr. 

 Paris, 2™= ser., n, 1875, pp. 517-542. 



2 Lacerda mentions also the skull (portion) of Ceara, described by Lacerda and Peixoto in the Archivos 

 do Muscu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, i, 187C, p. 67. The original, a piece of the vault, was examined by 

 the writer; it is quite an ordinary piece, with a somewhat sloping forehead, which was badly posed and 

 pictured. It can have no claim to be considered in connection with antiquity. 



