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miisciilo-spiral groove is pronounced. The shaft shows character- 

 istic Indian flatness; its shape at middle is intermediary: 1-cc. (pris- 

 matic — plano-convex); it presents a shglit bend forward and inward 

 about the ixdddle, but this is nothing remarkable. 



Radius. — Piece of one of the bones representing about the middle 

 two-thirds of the shaft. Shows masculine strength. Curve exactly 

 like that in modern bones, also shape of shaft and anterior concavity 

 about the middle. Interosseous border moderate. Not diseased. 

 Dimensions at about middle: diameter antero-posterior, 1.25 cm.; 

 diameter lateral, 1.75 cm. 



The bones, especially the lower jaw, indicate more conclusively 

 than the skull that the individual under consideration was a male. 



Critical Remarks 



The Chocorl remains afford a still further example of th? utilization 

 of finds which have no satisfactory geologic and no anthropologic 

 claims to antiquity, to swell the ranks of early man in America. 

 They have been drawn on for that purpose simply because of the 

 adhesion of calcareous matter to the surface of the lower bones and 

 a possible slight mineralization of the same. Found by an un- 

 scientific museum employee near the surface of the ground, frag- 

 mentary and imperfect, restored approximately, presenting no fea- 

 tures more primitive than the Indian and none to distinguish them 

 from the Indian, and not even mentioned in the literature of the 

 subject for 19 years after discovery, it seems that these remains 

 should surely be omitted from further consideration as a factor in 

 the discussion of the problems connected with early man on the 

 South American continent. 



HUMAN REMAINS FROM OVEJERO AND NEIGHBORHOOD 



Reports and History 



The only information thus far pubhshed concerning the finds 

 of human remains in the vicinity of Ovejero, is furnished by 

 Ameghino. The first mention occurs in his paper on the Tetrapro- 

 thomo,^ in a footnote reading as follows,: 



"Ovejero is a locahty in the Province of Santiago del Estero, 

 on the Rio Dulce, at a distance of some 30 kilometers from the 

 station Gramilla. The travehng naturahst of the Museo Nacional, 

 Sr. Enrique de Carles, found in the uppermost strata of the Pampean 

 formation at tliis locahty a series of human remains (crania, long 

 bones, etc.) belonging apparently to two distinct races, one of which 

 was pigmy. I have entrusted the examination of these remains 

 to the distinguished anthropologist, Dr. R. Lehmann-Nitsche, who 



1 Notas preliminares sobre el Tetraprothomo argmtinus, un precursor del hombre del miocenp superior 

 de Monte Hermoso; in Anal. Mu9. Nac. Buenos Aires, xvi (ser. in, t. ijc), 1907, pp. 115-116. 



