550 A. Hrdlidka — Early Man in America. 



a companion. About one year later Roth happened to see in 

 the garden of his companion some fragments of "fossil" bones 

 and on asking where they came from he was informed that 

 they were the remnants of the skeleton dug out near Saladero. 

 And these fragments constitute the sole evidence of the Sala- 

 dero representative of the ancient man of Argentina. 



The "Arreeifes " skull was found by a preparator attached 

 to the Museo National of Buenos Aires "in terrane belonging 

 to the Pampean formation which was left exposed by water." 

 This is absolutely all that has ever been recorded in regard to 

 the circumstances of this discovery. The " Samborombon " 

 skeleton was found in 1882 by a traveling naturalist of the 

 Museum at Buenos Aires, and the first meager details regard- 

 ing the specimen were not given until 1889. The skeleton 

 itself is lost without ever having been studied, but neverthe- 

 less poses as a representative of "fossil" man in Argentina, and 

 has even given rise to the coining, by Kobelt in Germany, of a 

 new human species, the " Homo pMocenicus." The " ChQeorV 

 skeleton was found about the year 1888 by an employee of the 

 La Plata Museum. The first notice of it was not published 

 until nineteen years later. The remains lay "abandoned on the 

 surface of the ground, partly covered by indurated sand." The 

 "Ovejero" bones were collected at different times by one of 

 the traveling naturalists of the Museum at Buenos Aires. 

 They were found at different levels in wind-blown loess in the 

 proximity of a fair-sized river, and in association with the bones 

 of several recent forms of animals. 



The " Baradero' 1 '' skeleton lay with most of the bones in 

 their natural relations in eolian loess, about 3 feet deep below 

 the surface. The "Arroyo del Moro" skeleton, which gave 

 rise to the new species of Homo sinemento, was discovered by a 

 sailor and his wife, and later excavated at the initiative of a 

 local physician by the sailor, his boy, and a gardener. The 

 " La Tigm" skull, which resulted in the establishment of 

 Homo pampaeus, attributed to the Tertiary, was found in 

 1888 by an unscientific employee of the Museo La Plata 

 near the Arroyo La Tigra. The employee was charged with 

 collecting fossils for the Museum. He went to a point 

 at which fossil animal bones were previously discovered, 

 excavated in the neighborhood, and among other things 

 discovered a human skull. This is all we know of the 

 circumstances of the discovery of this specimen, which has 

 been given such importance. Another small lot of bones 

 relating to the Homo pampaeus were discovered on and 

 near the surface of some partly denuded ground near Necochea 

 by the above mentioned gardener. The " Diprothomo'''' (or 

 nearest but one precursor of man) fragment was found by com- 

 mon laborers and for thirteen years lay unnoticed in the 



