hrdliCka] skeletal REMAINS OP EARLY MAN 295 



In 1910 the Miramar skull is casually referred to by Schwalbe* 

 in his critical study of the Diprothomo. Speaking of the faulty figures 

 of the Diprothomo, Schwalbe says: "On this occasion let it also be 

 stated at once that Ameghino's Homo pampseus skull, pictured 

 in the same work (fig. 24, p. 157 of Ameghino's memoir on the Dipro- 

 thomo), is falsely posed for the norma verticalis." If the position is 

 corrected, the inferior orbital border, which in the illustration is 

 advanced considerably more forward than the upper, assumes the 

 same position as in recent man. 



Finally, in the latter part of 1910, the Homo pampxus remains from 

 Miramar and Necochea are considered by Mochi in his notes on the 

 Argentine paleoanthropology.^ 



As to the Miramar skull, however, Mochi' s observations are 

 restricted. He recognizes that it is artificially deformed. Except 

 for the deformation, it presents considerable resemblance to the skull 

 of Fontezuelas. This is somewhat in accord with the opinion of 

 Rivet, who inclines, in a brief note on the specimen,^ to class it with 

 those of Lagoa Santa. 



OBSERVATIONS BY THE WRITER 



The results of the writer's examination and measurements of the 

 Miramar skeleton differ considerably from those of Ameghinb, and 

 somewhat also from those of Lehmann-Nitsche, though with the latter 

 there are many points of agreement.* 



The skeleton is that of an adult male, of advanced middle acre. 

 The sexual identification of the skull can be safely based on the lower 

 jaw, which can not be other than masculine; the remaining parts of 

 the cranium show the sexual features less pronounced than ordinary. 

 The long bones indicate a male of moderate stature and musculature. 



The poor development of the sexual characteristics of the vault, 

 otherwise of little importance, is surely not a feature of any great 

 primitiveness or one pointing toward antiquity. 



The surfaces of all the bones are discolored to yellowish-white (very 

 much as in the specimens fromChocori, p. 239), and in general very 

 defective, being worn or scaled off. In a number of places on the skull 

 and bones there are incrustations of loess cemented by lime, and a few 



1 Schwalbe, G., Studienzur Morphologie der siidanierikanischen Primatenformen; in Zeitschr.fiirMorph. 

 und Anthr., Bd. xm, Heft 2, Stuttgart, 1910, pp. 242, 253. 



2 Mochi, A., Appunti sulla paleoantropologia argentina; in Arch, per I'Antr. e la Etn., xl, Firenze, 1910, 

 p. 253-254. 



8 Rivet, P., La race de Lagoa-Santa chez les populations pr^colombiennes de I'Equateur; in Bull, et 

 Mem. Soc. d' Anthr. Paris, 5'^ sen, ix, 1908, p. 209 et seq. 



* To insure greater independence of procedure and view in this case, as in that of every other object 

 reported on in tliis paper, with the exception of the Diprothomo, the details published by Ameghino, 

 Lehinann-Nitsche, and others, concerning these specimens, were not read until after the writer's results were 

 on paper. 



