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THE LANSING SKELETON 
Following the report, in 1902, that a human skeleton had been 
found deeply imbedded in the bluff formation facing the Missouri 
River, 20 miles above Kansas City, many geologists and archeologists 
visited the site of the discovery. 
For several years there had been active and widespread discus- 
sion among students along these lines, in regard to the antiquity 
