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[Crawford. 
General Meeting, April 5, 1893. 
Vice-President B. Joy Jeffries in the ciiair. Fifty-five 
persons present. 
The following papers were read : — 
EVIDENCES OF MAN IN NICARAGUA DURING THE 
EARLY NEOLITHIC AGE AND THE PROB- 
ABLE PRESENT TRIBAL NAME AND 
LOCALITY OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 
liY J. CRAWFORD. 
Evidences of the existence of man along the western coast of 
Nicaragua, during the early j^art of the Neolithic age and 
probably in the Solutrian division of the Palaeolithic age, were dis- 
covered by the Spaniards early in the sixteenth century, without, 
however, any recognition of the great antiquity of the discoveries ; 
and no descrij)tioii of them nor of the locality where found has 
been published. 
They consist of : — 
1. A few rough, chipped, arrow-heads and spear-heads of 
Hint, jasper, or felsite. 
2. Hard gneissoid rocks, about nine feet long, carved into 
representations of man — L f., stone statues of men. 
3. Numerous fragments of pottery, made of clay, containing 
fragments of volcanic rocks, unadorned and originally unl)urne(l. 
Of these evidences, the most interesting and important, because 
having a reliable record as to the geological time or epoch in 
which they were made, are : — 
a. Several well-executed stone statues found at tlie same 
locality and all of the same brachycephalic type, careful!}^ and 
slowly scul])tured, from blocks of hard rock, with brittle tools of 
flint, petrosilex, jasper, and felsite. 
t>. Oblong blocks of partly metamor])hosed rocks about 3X4x9 
feet, in their natural state or but slightly shaped by man, some 
of them i)laced in alignment with the two parallel rows of stone 
statues and apparently forming the foundations foi* an oblong 
temple or observatory extending east and west. Other similar 
rocks were in piles near the latter, ]:)laced so as to form tlie walls 
that were in alignment with the stone images. 
PKOCEEDINGS P.. S. N'. H. VOL. XXVl. 3 JULY 1893. 
