32 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL, ee 
Analysis of recent and fossil bones from Vero, Florida [p. 133] 
No. 1 
No. 2 
No. 3 
No. 4 
Specific gravity 
2. 0627 
2 8357 
2 6293 
2 7505 
Moisture at 100 C 
10 72 
2 07 
4 09 
3 89 
Volatile matter 
19 59 
8 92 
8 22 
10 30 
Phosphoric acid, P 2 Or 
27.24 
32 27 
30 88 
32 00 
Calcium oxide, CaO 
39 75 
46 80 
45 69 
48 31 
Insoluble matter, silica, etc 
60 
1 11 
3 61 
1 39 
Iron and aluminum oxides. . . . 
13 
3 71 
1 85 
76 
No. 1 is from a recent human tibia taken from an Indian mound near Vero. 
Fla. Surv. coll. No. 5537. No. 2 is from the right tibia of a man taken in place 
in the Pleistocene bed at Vero. Fla. Surv. coll. No. 5200. No. 3 is from the 
femur of Canis sp. from the stream bed at Vero. Fla. Surv. coll. No. 5449. No. 
4 is from the front part of the jaw of Mcgalonyje jcffersonii, from Vero. Fla. 
Surv. coll. No. 4374. 
[P. 160.] The men of the stage of the Pleistocene represented by stratum No. 2 
of the section at Vero were then making flint implements, a fact fully estab 
lished by the discovery in place in the Pleistocene bed of a spawl from such an 
implement. They apparently were also making bone implements, two of which 
have been obtained from screenings from the Pleistocene deposit. They prob 
ably had also acquired the art or custom of engraving on bone, this conclusion 
being supported by the discovery in place in the Pleistocene bed of a bone and 
of a proboscidian tusk having markings which seemingly were made by tools. 
Further support of this fact is derived from the presence in the formation of 
small flints obtained from screenings which may have served as tools for this 
purpose. 
As to layer No. 3, Dr. Sellards has already been quoted as stating 
that [p. 142] &quot; human remains characterize stratum No. 3 : a fact 
indicated by an abundance of pottery, many bone implements, arrow 
heads, and other small flints.&quot; He adds, on the following page : 
A considerable amount of broken pottery is found in this horizon particularly 
at the locality on the south bank 450 to 475 feet west of the bridge. Bone 
implements are also numerous and were made evidently to serve a diversity 
of purposes. Well-worked flint arrowheads are found also, as 1 well as occasional 
spawls from the manufacture of flints. The pottery, flints, and bone imple 
ments, however, are not confined to this locality on the south bank, but are 
found also in the same horizon on the opposite side of the canal. 
[P. 159.1 The cultural stage of man contemporaneous with stratum No. 3 
was quite advanced as indicated by the presence of pottery, ornaments, and a 
diversity of bone implements. These artifacts are numerous in this horizon, 
and as the deposit is stratified and undisturbed it is quite impossible that they 
could have been placed there by burial. 
Dr. Sellards proceeds then to enumerate in detail the plants and 
fossil animal bones found in strata 2 and 3 (pp. 143 et seq.). 
