HUMAN REMAINS AT VERO. 
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The objections that have been offered to the Pleistocene age of 
the human remains have been considered by the writer in a paper 
published in a recent issue of the American Anthropologist (N. S. 
vol. 19, pp. 239-251, No. 2, 1917). The evidence that the human 
bones reached the place where found by natural agencies and not 
by human burial is there presented in some detail, and for conven¬ 
ience of reference is reprinted here. The evidence that the verte¬ 
brate fossils in the stream bed are primary and not secondary was 
also given in the paper to which reference has been made. The 
evidence that the deposits themselves, both strata No. 2 and 3, are 
of the Pleistocene period is more fully presented than heretofore 
in the present volume. 
The following extract is from the American Anthropologist 
with some minor alterations which, however, do not affect the sub¬ 
stance of the article. 
The question as to whether or not the human bones represent burials may 
perhaps be best discussed by considering the bones of the individual found in the 
south bank of the canal west of the lateral inlet. Of the bones of this individual, 
the right ulna, a part of the humerus, a part of a scapula, one incisor, and parts 
of the skull had fallen from the bank. Of these bones the ulna, the humerus 
and a piece of the frontal are bleached from exposure to the sun. The other 
bones mentioned were found in cavings which had recently fallen from the bank, 
and do not show bleaching. All of the other bones that have been obtained at 
this locality were found in place in the bank. The bones which apparently may 
safely be attributed to this individual include, in addition to those mentioned, the 
left ulna, the shaft of the right femur (in two pieces), the proximal part of the 
left radius, the ascending ramus of the right lower jaw, two metatarsals and 
numerous fragments of the skull and some pieces of ribs. Bones found a little 
farther to the east which may or may not pertain to this individual include, a 
right astragalus, a right external cuneiform, a piece from the right pubes, and 
a part of the left ilium, two phalanges and a section from a limb bone, as well as 
some other bone fragments. These last named bones are from stratum No. 2 
of the section, while all the others listed were on the contact line of Nos. 2 and 3. 
All of the bones are more or less broken and incomplete. The first bone 
found in place was the proximal part of the left ulna. An additional part of the 
shaft of this bone was subsequently found a few inches farther back in the 
bank. The second bone found in place was the proximal part of the shaft of the 
left femur. Two and a half months later, after the excavating had been carried 
farther back into the bank, an additional part of the shaft of this femur was 
obtained, the two pieces of bone being separated in the bank by a distance of 
eight feet. This bone, the two pieces having been put together, is illustrated in 
figure 3 of plate 19 of the Eighth Annual Report of the Florida Geological 
Survey. The third bone found in place was the proximal part of the left radius. 
A photograph showing these three bones in place in the bank was reproduced in 
