HUMAN REMAINS FROM THE TRENTON 
GRAVELS. 
Dr. FRANK RUSSELL. 
In the long controversy regarding the age of the implements 
or “paleoliths”’ from the Trenton gravels little attention has 
been given to the human remains from the same beds. Believ- 
ing that some account of them would prove to be of general 
interest, I have undertaken? their study in the attempt to 
determine whether or not they resemble the remains of recent 
Indians of that region. As the Delaware Valley was occupied 
by the Lenni Lenapé until 1737, the crania found near the 
surface, at least about Trenton, are, P of members 
of that tribe. 
Material. — The most interesting of these relics is an imper- 
fect calvarium (Fig. 1) found at a depth of twelve feet from the 
surface in the stratified gravels. It was discovered by a laborer 
who was leveling the bottom of the pit which had been dug for 
the gasometer of the Trenton Gas Company. The workman’s 
spade cut away a large portion of the left parietal, which was 
not recovered. The skull was taken by the foreman in charge 
of the excavation to a druggist, who displayed it in the window 
of his store, where it was seen by Dr. Abbott and obtained by 
him for the Peabody Museum at Cambridge. Both the fore- 
man and the druggist are now dead, so that no statement can 
be obtained of the circumstances, though diligent inquiries were 
made at the time by Dr. Abbott. As no one received any com- 
pensation for the skull, there was no evident motive for decep- 
tion. This skull, together with all the specimens described in 
this paper, is now in the possession of the Peabody Museum of 
Harvard University. In the report of the curator of the mu- 
seum, F. W, Putnam, for 1879, we find this statement: “The 
1 With the kind permission of Prof. F. W. Putnam. I have also to thank 
Dr. C. C. Abbott and Mr. Ernest Volk for information about the position of the 
specimens. 
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