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until long after the introduction of European domestic animals ; and accordingly 

 there should be nothing surprising in the occurrence of beef bones in human 

 graves, either with or without bones of the native animals. [P. 8.] 



Further search along the walls of the quebrada was rewarded by the dis- 

 covery of several other bone deposits whose history seems to have been almost 

 as closely connected with recent changes in the contours of the gravels as was 

 the history of the deposit found in 1911. Reference has been made to a mass of 

 talus material at the foot of the northeast wall and about 60 feet distant from 

 the excavation of 1911. In this material, by the side of the trail, human bones 

 were found under conditions differing from those that obtained in the interment 

 previously described. . . . Excavation at this place brought to light parts of 

 two human skeletons, a fragment of a llama's vertebra, a piece of charred bone, 

 a few podial bones of some small unidentified mammal, bits of charcoal, and a 

 small flat piece of bone, about 1^ inches long and one-half inch wide, pierced at 

 one end. No pottery was found. The human material shows no departure 

 from the modern Indian type of the region, and possesses little morphological 

 interest. [P. 9.] 



In following pages Dr. Eaton refers to several other graves found 

 in the walls of the quebrada which yielded human remains in much 

 the same condition as those of the " Cuzco man" of 1911, and were 

 associated with inclividiuil bones of animals, in one case even those 

 of a horse. 



Some time after the return of the first Yale Peruvian Expedition 

 from the Cuzco Valley, the human bones representing the " Cuzco 

 man " were brought to the writer's laboratory in the United States 

 National Museum for comparisons. Among 10 modern Peruvian 

 femora selected at random, several showed close relation and one a 

 practical identity in type and dimensions with the femur which 

 formed part of the Cuzco find. The remaining bones were more or 

 less fragmentary, but presented no characteristic whatever by which 

 they could be distinguished from the more immediate Columbian and 

 post-Columbian Peruvian bones. The part of the parietal, though its 

 aspect was somewhat obscured by the soaking in vaseline to which 

 all the specimens had been subjected," was seen to be still fairly 

 " green." In general, the state of preservation of the bones bore 

 but little resemblance to that of any of the remains of early man in 

 France or elsewhere. 



