FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO, FLORIDA n 



canal, and apparently the marl rock of that section may also be 

 referred to stratum No. 3. This part of the section will be more 

 fully discussed subsequently. 



The sketch, Fig. 2 of this paper, may be compared with Fig. 6 

 of the writer's paper in the Eighth Annual Report of the Florida 

 Geological Survey, in which is shown a part of the same bank, 

 including the location of the important fossils. Although this part 

 of the canal bank was afterward carried back by excavations a 

 distance of from 5 to 8 feet, the fossils of the former sketch may, as 

 a matter of convenience, be projected on to the present sketch, 

 as has been done in this figure, thus indicating their approximate 

 location with respect to the section as now exposed. Human 

 bones were found in No. 2 ate (projected from the former section) 

 and in No. 3 at the general locality indicated by d. Pottery and 

 bone implements are found in No. 3 throughout the section. 



HUMAN REMAINS AND ARTIFACTS FROM STRATUM NO. 2 



The first human bones obtained at Vero were found in the 

 south bank of the canal, 330 feet west of the bridge. In the 

 exposure at this place there is no recognizable break in the section 

 from the base of stratum No. 2 to the marl rock at the top of the 

 section, and in the writer's earlier papers the whole section was 

 referred to stratum No. 2. The new observations recorded in 

 this paper apparently permit the reference of the marl rock 

 at the top of the section to stratum No. 3. If this is true, the 

 human bones at this place in stratum No. 2 are beneath the one 

 and one-half or two feet of marl rock which represents stratum 

 No. 3. 



The second lot of human bones from stratum No. 2 were found 

 by the writer in June, 19 16. The bones found in place include 

 an astragalus, a cuneiform, and a part of an ilium. Upon sifting 

 the sand in which these bones were imbedded there was obtained 

 in addition two phalanges, a section from a limb bone, and some 

 other human bone fragments. The cuneiform was about 10 inches 

 from the astragalus, and between the two bones at the same level 

 as the astragalus was the scapula of a deer. The ilium was about 

 one foot farther back in the bank. The vertebrate fossils found 



