DISCOVERIES ATTRIBUTED TO EARLY MAN 55 
SKELETON II 
The second skeleton, though its parts as found were more segre 
gated, is even better represented than the first. The parts saved 
are as follows : 
Skull : Sixteen pieces ; also part of the lower jaw and a tooth. 
Upper limbs : Lower half of left humerus ; both ulnae, lacking distal ends ; 
upper half of left radius ; two phalanges ; part of a metacarpal. 
Trunk and pelvis : Part of right scapula ; 6 fair-sized pieces of ribs ; part 
of left ilium, with articular surface for sacrum ; part of left pubes, with part 
of the acetabulum. 
Lower limbs : About one-third of right and three-fourths of left femur 
(shaft) ; part of right tibia; part of left fibula; right astragalus; right third 
cuneiform ; and parts of three metatarsals. 
The bones differ considerably in color as well as in consistency 
from those of Skeleton I. With the exception of three of the pieces 
which fell out of the bank and were more or less bleached by exposure, 
the bones are of a uniform brown color, the brown of vegetal 
origin as found in many stagnant waters as well as running streams 
in Florida. It is a color derived from the muck, and permeates the 
bones throughout their structure. It is the exact color of nearly all 
the bone implements and other bone artifacts recovered from stratum 
No. 3 (the muck layer) at Vero, and indicates that the human bones 
belong to the same layer. 
The bones, or what is left of them, are in a remarkably good state 
of preservation. They show no signs of \veathering, washing, or of 
cutting or gnawing, with the exception of a few marks of the teeth 
of a small rodent on the left femur. 
The fractures in the bones are as a rule transverse, none of the 
specimens being split. Some of the fractures are very recent, others 
older ; but whatever the age of the fracture, the edges are invariably 
sharp, without signs of wear. These conditions point on the one 
hand to fractures produced at the time of, or subsequent to, the 
dredging, and on the other hand to breaks due to stress, probably 
after the bones were already partly mineralized within the deposits. 
Anthropologically, the skeleton is quite interesting, not because 
of indications of antiquity, which may be said at once to be entirely 
absent, or aberrance in type, but because of its rather superior mod 
ern characteristics, particularly as regards the cranium. The skull 
and bones are Indian, but they seem to belong to a type such as can 
occasionally be found among the Eastern Algonquian, or among the 
Sioux, rather than in Florida. At first it seemed that the skeleton 
might be that of a mixed blood (Indian- white), or even of a white 
man, but a detailed study of the bones has definitely removed this 
impression. 
