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H. Bingham. — Discovery of Pre-Historic 



tradition that this valley was once used as a burial place for 

 plague victims in Cnzco, possibly not more than three genera- 



Fig. 5. 



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Fig. 5. The bone locality before excavation. The projecting femur first 

 discovered lies directly beneath the hammer. Note the stratification from 

 a point about one foot above the bone down to the base of the bluff. 



tions ago. Such a story appears to be well borne out by the 

 great number of human bones that occur in the talus slopes. I 

 was most anxious to see whether anything could be found defi- 

 nitely in situ, where the stratification had not been disturbed. 





