FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO, FLORIDA 47 



The foregoing comprises in brief the writer's personal observa- 

 tions at Vero, with the exception of those on the human bones 

 themselves. After a careful weighing of the facts, both on the 

 spot and afterward, he regrets that he cannot agree with the con- 

 clusions reached by Dr. Sellards as to their antiquity. It seems to 

 him that there is another possible and more likely explanation of 

 their occurrence in the deposits than that which would make 



Fig. 2. — Right side of skull belonging to skeleton II (frontal bone, light from 

 exposure, on the right, occiput on the left). 



them contemporaneous with the various fossil animals the remains 

 of which are found in the same layers, and some of which may date 

 from the middle or even early Pleistocene. 



A relatively small amount of work brought to light the remains 

 of five human individuals — a small child, an adolescent or young 

 adult, a young woman, and two adult men. In the vicinity of 

 these occurred a quantity of pottery fragments, resembling closely 

 the usual Florida variety, bone implements, and stone imple- 

 ments with chips, and all in proximity to, or in, the bed of a 



