LITERATURE RELATING TO HUMAN REMAINS AND 
ARTIFACTS AT VERO, FLORIDA 
By E. H. SELL ARDS. 
In the July, 1916, issue of this journal the writer announced the 
discovery of human remains and artifacts in association with ex¬ 
tinct vertebrates at Vero, Florida. Since that time there has accu¬ 
mulated a very considerable literature relating to the locality and 
to the discoveries. Among papers on this subject recently issued 
is a memoir by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka which i$ included in Bulletin 66 
of the United States Bureau of American Ethnology (pp. 23-65, 
1918). 
In this memoir Dr. Hrdlicka maintains the hypothesis previ¬ 
ously proposed by him that the human remains and artifacts found 
at Vero represent burials by human agency. Aside from adhering 
to this hopelessly inadequate hypothesis, the paper is remarkable 
for what it omits rather than for what it contains. Papers by a 
number of geologists and anthropologists had been published pre¬ 
vious to the final revision of this memoir, as is indicated by a state¬ 
ment found on page 65 of the paper, but to the contents of these 
publications there is no adequate reference. The hypothesis pro¬ 
posed by Dr. R. T. Chamberlain, which is in accord neither with 
that of Dr. Hrdlicka nor with that of the present writer, receives 
not so much as mention. The investigations' of Dr. O. P. Hay, 
which support the Pleistocene age of the human remains, is only 
casually referred to. The observations of Dr. G. G. MacCurdy, 
which in no way support the burial hypothesis are not mentioned. 
It might have been supposed that the observations and conclusions 
of a specialist in paleobotany would have be£n of interest, since an 
important part of the evidence in this instance rests with the fossil 
plants. Nevertheless the fact that Professor E. W. Berry has 
stated that he has personally observed artifacts in place in these 
deposits 1 lying beneath a late Pleistocene flora under conditions 
such that they could not possibly have been introduced by human 
agency is singularly passed over. In fact the brief reference to 
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