32 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY Ibull. C6 



Analysis of recent and fossil bones from Vero, Florida [p. 133] 



Specific gravity 2. 0627 



Moisture at 100° C 10. 72 



No. 1 



No. 2 



No. 3 No. 4 



Volatile matter 



Phovsphoric acid, P2O5 



Calcium oxide, CaO 



Insoluble matter, silica, etc. 

 Iron and aluminum oxides. . 



19.59 



27. 24 



39. 75 



0.60 



0.13 



2. 8357 



2.07 



8.92 

 32.27 

 46.80 



].ll 



3.71 



2. 6293 



4.09 



8.22 

 30.88 

 45.69 



3.61 



1.85 



2. 7505 



3.89 

 10.30 

 32.00 

 48.31 



1.39 



0.76 



No. 1 is from a recent human tibia talceu from an Indian mound near Vero. 

 Fla. Surv. coll. No. 5537. No. 2 is from the rif,dit tibia of a man taken in place 

 in the Pleistocene bed at "N'ero. Fla. Surv. coll. No. 5200. No. 3 is from the 

 femur of Cants sp. from the stream bed at Vero. Fla. Surv. coll. No. 5449. No. 

 4 is fi'om the front part of the jaw of Mcgalonyx jeffersonii, from Vero. Fla. 

 Surv. coll. No. 4374. 



[P. 160.] The men of the stage of the Pleistocene represented by stratum No. 2 

 of the section at Vero were then making flint implements, a fiict fully estab- 

 lished by the discovery in place in the Pleistocene bed of n. spawl from such an 

 implement. They apparently were also making bone implements, two of which 

 have been obtained from screenings from the Pleistocene deposit. They prob- 

 ably had also acquired the art or custom of engraving on bone, this conclusion 

 being supported by the discovery in place in the Pleistocene bed of a bone and 

 of a proboscidian tusk having markings which seemingly were made by tools. 

 Further supioort of this fact is derived from the presence in the formation of 

 small flints obtained from screenings which may have served as tools for this 

 purpose. 



As to layer No. 3, Dr. Sellards has already been quoted as stating 

 that [p. 142] " human remains characterize stratum No. 3 ; a fact 

 indicated by an abundance of pottery, many bone implements, arrow- 

 heads, and other small flints." He adds, on the following page : 



A considerable amount of broken pottery is foimd in this horizon particularly 

 at the locality on the south bank 450 to 475 feet -west of the bridge. Bone 

 implements are also numerous and were made evidently to serve a diversity 

 of purposes. Well-worked flint arrowheads are found also, as well as occasional 

 spawls from the manufacture of flints. The pottery, flints, and bone imple- 

 ments, however, are not conflned to this locality on the south bank, but are 

 found also in the same horizon on the opposite side of the canal. 



[P. 159.1 The cultural stage of man contemporaneous with stratum No. 3 

 was quite advanced as indicated by the presence of pottery, ornaments, and a 

 diversity of bone implements. These artifacts are numerous in this horizon, 

 and as the deposit is stratified and undisturbed it is quite impossible that they 

 could have been placed there by burial. 



Dr. Sellards proceeds then to enumerate in detail the plants and 

 fossil animal bones found in strata 2 and 3 (pp. 143 et seq.). 



