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  Sellards 
  — 
  Literature 
  Relating 
  to 
  Human 
  Remains. 
  

  

  Art. 
  XXIII. 
  — 
  Literature 
  Relating 
  to 
  Human 
  Remains 
  

   and 
  Artifacts 
  at 
  Vero, 
  Florida; 
  by 
  E. 
  H. 
  Sellards. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  July, 
  1916, 
  issue 
  of 
  this 
  Journal 
  the 
  writer 
  

   announced 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  human 
  remains 
  and 
  artifacts 
  

   in 
  association 
  with 
  extinct 
  vertebrates 
  at 
  Vero, 
  Florida. 
  

   Since 
  that 
  time 
  there 
  has 
  accumulated 
  a 
  very 
  considerable 
  

   literature 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  locality 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  discoveries. 
  

   Among 
  papers 
  on 
  this 
  subject 
  recently 
  issued 
  is 
  a 
  memoir 
  

   by 
  Dr. 
  Ales 
  Hrdlicka 
  which 
  is 
  included 
  in 
  Bulletin 
  66 
  of 
  

   the 
  United 
  States 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology 
  (pp. 
  

   23-65, 
  1918). 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  memoir 
  Dr. 
  Hrdlicka 
  maintains 
  the 
  hypothesis 
  

   previously 
  proposed 
  by 
  him 
  that 
  the 
  human 
  remains 
  and 
  

   artifacts 
  found 
  at 
  Vero 
  represent 
  burials 
  by 
  human 
  

   agency. 
  Aside 
  from 
  adhering 
  to 
  this 
  hopelessly 
  inade- 
  

   quate 
  hypothesis, 
  the 
  paper 
  is 
  remarkable 
  for 
  what 
  it 
  

   omits 
  rather 
  than 
  for 
  what 
  it 
  contains. 
  Papers 
  by 
  a 
  

   number 
  of 
  geologists 
  and 
  anthropologists 
  had 
  been 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  previous 
  to 
  the 
  final 
  revision 
  of 
  this 
  memoir, 
  as 
  is 
  

   indicated 
  by 
  a 
  statement 
  found 
  on 
  page 
  65 
  of 
  the 
  paper, 
  

   but 
  to 
  the 
  contents 
  of 
  these 
  publications 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  ade- 
  

   quate 
  reference. 
  The 
  hypothesis 
  proposed 
  by 
  Dr. 
  R. 
  T. 
  

   Chamberlin, 
  which 
  is 
  in 
  accord 
  neither 
  with 
  that 
  of 
  

   Dr. 
  Hrdlicka 
  nor 
  with 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  writer, 
  receives 
  

   not 
  so 
  much 
  as 
  mention. 
  The 
  investigations 
  of 
  Dr. 
  0. 
  P. 
  

   Hay, 
  which 
  support 
  the 
  Pleistocene 
  age 
  of 
  the 
  human 
  

   remains, 
  is 
  only 
  casually 
  referred 
  to. 
  The 
  observations 
  

   of 
  Dr. 
  G. 
  G. 
  MacCurdy, 
  which 
  in 
  no 
  way 
  support 
  the 
  burial 
  

   hypothesis 
  are 
  not 
  mentioned. 
  It 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  sup- 
  

   posed 
  that 
  the 
  observations 
  and 
  conclusions 
  of 
  a 
  specialist 
  

   in 
  paleobotany 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  of 
  interest, 
  since 
  an 
  

   important 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  evidence 
  in 
  this 
  instance 
  rests 
  with 
  

   the 
  fossil 
  plants. 
  Nevertheless 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  Professor 
  

   E. 
  W. 
  Berry 
  has 
  stated 
  that 
  he 
  has 
  personally 
  observed 
  

   artifacts 
  in 
  place 
  in 
  these 
  deposits 
  lying 
  beneath 
  a 
  late 
  

   Pleistocene 
  flora 
  under 
  conditions 
  such 
  that 
  they 
  could 
  

   not 
  possibly 
  have 
  been 
  introduced 
  by 
  human 
  agency 
  is 
  

   singularly 
  passed 
  over. 
  In 
  fact 
  the 
  brief 
  reference 
  to 
  

   Berry's 
  paper 
  fails 
  to 
  indicate 
  that 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  a 
  

   description 
  of 
  the 
  fossil 
  plants, 
  he 
  has 
  placed 
  on 
  record 
  

   observations 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  human 
  relics 
  in 
  

   the 
  deposits. 
  

  

  