THE POZO STONE. 409 



In all likelihood a stone implement was used to incise the Pozo 

 Stone, and that it is of Neolithic age and not newer. 



In many of its petroglyphic characters, those on the stone do 

 not differ from others found in every part of the world, and why 

 should they ? It is probable that the district from whence the stone 

 came and the provinces around, was the centre from which primitive 

 civilization spread in America, and we can understand how, in 

 earliest times, the simplest symbols would acquire universal usage. 

 A glance at the Pozo Stone shews characters familiar everywhere on 

 stones of a similar nature, circles, like some which I have seen on 

 blocks of millstone grit on Ilkley Moor, in Yorkshire, and such as 

 are inscribed on stones in many English counties from Cornwall to 

 Northumberland. In Scotland some have two circles connected 

 by a sort of bow, the spectacle markings 3 these are the first 

 incisions on the stone in the Museum ; and in Ireland, and 

 universally abroad, these cupiform markings are known. 



Mr. R. B. White, in his paper, already quoted, on the 

 aborigines of South America, says " Throughout the whole of 

 this great country, I know of no vestiges of buildings nor of any 

 monuments left by the millions who once lived there. Near 

 Titirive, in the State of Antioquia, there is a group of large 

 stones having circles — some single and some concentric — some 

 with a dot in the centre and some without — sculptured upon them. 

 But it is not possible to connect these with the tribes of whom we 

 have any historic record." On a sculptured dolmen of Petit Mont, 

 Avzon, Brittany, there are cut two feet, very similar to those on the 

 Pozo Stone.* 



There are incised, too, on the Pozo Stone, the figures of several 

 men, such figures are cosmopolitan,fand necessarily so, aspetroglyphs 

 have in all cases to do with human actions, and it agrees, too, with 

 many other petroglyphs in having serpents and birds inscribed upon 

 it. It differs, however, from anything I have yet seen illustrated, 

 in having on it the llama, or some variety of this animal, probably 



* " The Sculptured Dolmens of the Morbihan, Brittany," by Rear-Admiral 

 F. S. Tremlett, Journal Anthrop. Inst., Vol. 15, p. 104. 



•j- A most interesting series of drawings of Eock Sculptures are to be found in 

 J. Russell Bartlett's "Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, 

 New Mexico, &c," Vol. 2, who admits their great antiquity. 



