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Ensenadean may pertain to the Ensenadean and may be of 

 Tertiary age. The skeletons were found in that facies of the Inter- 

 Ensenadean which the writer regards as Recent. But the age of 

 the formation has no bearing on the age of the skeletons, since it is 

 evident from the shallowness of the hole and the attitude of the 

 bodies, as illustrated in plate 29, that they were buried in the soft 

 sand by human hands. 



General Conclusions regarding Homo sinemento 



By A. H. 



After what has been said in previous pages, no further extended 

 consideration of the subject on the writer's part seems necessary. 

 The antiquity of the finds and the identification of a new species of 

 man fail wholly to be substantiated by either geologic or anthropologic 

 evidence. On the contrary, the evidence all points to a relatively 

 modern age of the interments and to the ordinary Indian derivation 

 of the bones. 



HOMO PAMPiEUS 



History and Reports 



Homo pampseus is, according to its sponsor. Professor Ameghino, 

 "the most ancient representative of the genus Homo (possibly even a 

 species of Prothomo) , of which we now possess the skull, and it pre- 

 serves many of the characteristics of the Diprothomo. ' ' ^ 



The species is based on an imperfect cranium, known as the skull 

 of Miramar, or La Tigra, found accidentally about 1888 by A. Canesa, 

 • a nonscientific employee of the Museo de la Plata, near the arroyo 

 La Tigra, not far from Mar del Sud, south of Miramar. 



Since the above date a number of other specimens have appeared, 

 which are placed by Professor Ameghino in the same class. He 

 enumerates them as follows: 



"I designate examples of skulls of Homo pampseus, which are 

 actually known, in this order: 



"First example: The skull found by Canesa south of Miramar, 

 preserved in the Museum of La Plata, which has served me as a type 

 upon which to found the species. ... It is the skull of a male. 



"Second example: The incomplete cranium discovered by Dr. 

 Rodolphe Faggioli at Necochea, with some other bones of the skeleton. 



"Third example: This is the most complete skull which I have 

 brought from my journey to Necochea . . . there are also numbers 



lAmeghino, Florentino, Le Diprothomo plafensis; in Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, xix (ser. 

 iii, t. xn), Buenos Aires, 1909, p. 151; also p. 156, footnote. 



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