FOSSIL HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO, FLORIDA 59 



majority of chips with bulbs that occur in Pleistocene and later 

 deposits have been produced intentionally, especially when asso- 

 ciated with human skeletal remains or with undoubted artifacts. 

 This is doubly true at Vero, because the source of the flint is the 

 Ocala or the Tampa formation a hundred miles to the northwest of 

 Vero. The cores from which the chips were struck could not well 

 have been transported that distance over so flat a country except 

 through human agency. 



The small flint chip reproduced in Fig. 3, and thought by 

 Sellards (his Text-Figs. 7 and 8) to be an implement, is likewise only 

 a chip or spall with its plane of percussion and bulb of percussion. 

 The multiple facets on its back or outer surface are due to the fact 

 that it was an inner instead of a superficial chip. It also is from 

 the south bank 460 feet west of the bridge, hence from near skeleton 

 No. II and the other two spalls here reproduced. While obtained 

 from siftings, it is believed by Dr. Sellards to have come from 

 stratum No. 2. In a recent letter he emphasizes the fact that 

 "up to the present the number of spalls taken from stratum No. 2 

 is in excess of the number taken from stratum No. 3, notwithstand- 

 ing that rather more material from No. 3 has been handled, ,nd 

 fully as much material from that stratum has been passed through 

 the sieve as from stratum No. 2." This fact, however, would 

 not seem to have any very direct bearing on the question whether 

 or not flints from stratum No. 3 had worked their way down into 

 stratum No. 2. 



A typical arrowhead of flint with barbs and stem, the latter 

 however broken off, came from the contact line between strata 

 No. 2 and No. 3 in the south bank 470 feet west of the bridge 

 (Sellards' Fig. i, PI. 21). 



For the sake of comparison bone implements from strata No. 2 

 and No. 3 are reproduced in Figs. 4-6. Fig. 4 is a typical point from 

 stratum No. 3, south bank, one of several from 450 to 470 feet west 

 of the bridge. The fragment of a similar point, obtained in siftings 

 from stratum No. 2, south bank, 462 feet west of the bridge, is 

 shown in Fig. 5. Another and nearly complete point, obtained 

 in siftings from stratum No. 2, south bank, 480 feet west of the 

 bridge, differs from the other two only in size (Fig. 6). 



