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Art. XLVIII. — Early Man in America* ; by Ales 

 Hrdlioka, Curator of the Division of Physical Anthro- 

 pology, United States National Museum. 



At the request of the Editor of this Journal the writer here 

 presents, in a brief form, the essential data concerning skeletal 

 and to some extent also other remains attributed to geological 

 ancient man on the American continent, more particularly in 

 South America, and the conclusions reached by him and his 

 associates, after prolonged and unprejudiced research into the 

 subject, as to the true age and anthropological significance of 

 these specimens. 



Between the years 1899 and 1907 the writer carried out a 

 series of inquiries on the various skeletal remains which sug- 

 gested or were attributed to ancient man in North America. 

 The studies resulted in a number of publications,! culminating 

 in a memoir comprehending the whole subject, which appeared 

 as Bulletin 33 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. The 

 results of the investigations seemed at first to lend support to 

 the theory of considerable antiquity for some of the remains 

 presented as evidence, as, for example, the two low skulls dis- 

 covered at Trenton, New Jersey. Subsequent researches, how- 

 ever, cleared up most of the uncertain points, and the entire 

 inquiry seemed to establish the fact that thus far no human 

 bones have come to light in North America representing other 

 than the Indian type of man, which we have many weighty 

 reasons to regard as relatively modern in this part of the 

 world. 



The details of the above work are sufficiently well known 

 and easily referred to, and as no further specimens for which 

 geological antiquity is claimed have been brought forth since 

 the publication of the above mentioned report, the territory 

 north of Panama need not be further dealt with in this place. 



More interesting and much more complex conditions than 

 those in regard to early man in North America have arisen in 



* Published with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian. 



\ The Crania of Trenton, N. J., and their Bearing upon the Antiquity of 

 Man in that Region. In Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, xvi, Art. 3, 23-G2, 3 charts, fig. 1-4, pi. i-xxii. New York, Feb. 6, 

 1902. 



The Lansing Skeleton in American Anthropologist, N. S., V, 323-330, 1 

 fig., Lancaster, Pa., June. 1903. 



A report on the Trenton Femur (written in 1902), published with E. Volk's 

 The Archeology of the Delaware Valley, Memoirs of the Peabody Musuem, 

 v, Cambridge, Mass., 1911, pp. 244-247. 



Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America. 

 Bulletin 33 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1-113, pi. i-xxi, rig. 1-16, 

 Washington, 1907. 



