Mamrnut Americanum in Connecticut. 329 



than the deepest of the bones taken from the other [there 

 were two] sink-hole." The pottery indicated a thick coarse 

 vessel about 8 inches across, while the " thoroughly burned " 

 charcoal varied in size "from two inches in diameter down."* 

 All in all, the evidence appears to show that the Wisconsin 

 ice sheet vanished from Connecticut and New York not many 

 thousands of years ago. Further, the associated human evidence 

 found svith or beneath the Attica mastodon bones is a positive 

 hint that should open our minds to the possibility that man 

 was associated in America with Mammut americanum. 

 There is still further paleontologic evidence suggesting the 

 existence of man even earlier than the occurrence in New York. 

 Professor Williston states that on a small tributary of the 

 Smoky Hill river in Logan county, Kansas, Mr. Handel T. 

 Martin found beneath but in contact with a right scapula of the 

 extinct Bison occidentalis an arrowhead. The bones of the 

 eight animals present and the human implement were not sur- 

 face finds, but were secured by digging away several feet of 

 the "upland marl," a deposit that originally covered the fossils 

 at least to a depth of 20 feet. In this marl also occurs Elephas 

 primigenius, an animal well known to ancient man of western 

 Europe.f 



Note on the Farmington specimen ; by Richard S. Lull. 



The Farmington mastodon has not yet been prepared for 

 exhibition, so that two important elements, the skull and pelvis, 

 being still in the plaster of Paris bandages which were put 

 on at the time of exhumation, are unavailable for study. 

 Certain broad generalizations can, however, be made which 

 may be of interest. 



The skeleton is that of a fully adult individual, the evidence 

 for which lies in the great size, the fully coossified epiphyses of 

 the vertebrae, and in the facts that the full quota of molars 

 had come into use and that all of their ridges show 

 signs of wear ; though, as the more posterior ones have 

 suffered but little in this regard, the animal must have 

 been in the prime of life. I should judge the specimen 

 to have been a male, though the one absolutely diagnostic 

 character, that of the presence of one or two lower tusks as in 

 the great Warren mastodon in the American Museum of 

 Natural History, is lacking. The size again and the great 

 development of the upper tusks are the only present evidences 

 of sex available, though that of the ratio of pelvic aperture to 

 pelvic breadth, larger in the female, may be learned when the 

 element can be studied. 



* Forty-first Ann. Kept., N. Y. State Mtis. Nat. Hist., 1888, 388-390. 

 fAmer. Geol., xxx, 313-315, 1902. 



