FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO, FLORIDA 13 



The spalls found in this stratum have been placed in the hands 

 of Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, who has consented to report upon 

 them. It is evident that these flints are not of local origin, the 

 nearest known outcrop of a flint-bearing formation being more 

 than 100 miles to the northwest. The flint spalls are sharp- 

 edged and quite unworn, indicating that they have been trans- 

 ported no great distance by water. The small flint pebbles 

 occasionally found in this deposit, on the contrary, are rounded 

 and well worn, there being no intermediate stages between the 

 worn pebbles of the deposit and the sharp-edged spalls. 



HUMAN REMAINS AND ARTIFACTS IN STRATUM NO. 3 



Three finds of human skeletal material are reported from 

 stratum No. 3. In each instance the bones lay at the contact line 

 between strata Nos. 2 and 3, and hence may belong to No. 2 rather 

 than to No. 3. The first of these discoveries was in the south 

 bank of the canal at the locality shown in Fig. 3. The bones 

 obtained at this place include the right and left ulna, part of a 

 humerus, a scapula, two incisors, parts of right and left femora, 

 a radius, part of a jaw, two metatarsals, and a considerable portion 

 of the skull, the pieces of which were dissociated and scattered. 

 All of these bones were on or very near the contact line between 

 Nos. 2 and 3, and, as they are near the place where human bones 

 were found in No. 2, they may have been derived from stratum 

 No. 2 and, as the writer has previously suggested, 1 may pertain 

 to the same individual as the bones found in No. 2. 



The second discovery of human remains referred to stratum 

 No. 3 was made by Isaac M. Weills, who in April, 19 16, obtained 

 a single human toe bone from the base of stratum No. 3 on the 

 north bank of the canal, 419 feet west of the bridge. A third dis- 

 covery of human skeletal material from this stratum was made 

 also by Mr. Weills, who in June, 1916, obtained a single human 

 tooth from the base of No. 3, on the north bank of the canal, 450 

 feet west of the bridge. All of the human skeletal material obtained 

 at Vero has been placed in the hands of Dr. A. Hrdlicka, who, it is 

 hoped, will discuss their relation to the modern races. 



1 Fla. State Geol. Surv., Eighth Annual Report, p. 142, October, 1916. 



