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fresh for specimens of &quot; geologic &quot; antiquity. The bone implements 
show little if any effects of weathering, are clear and sharp in out 
lines, and for the greater part exhibit exactly the same coloration and 
seemingly also the same partial mineralization as do the bones of 
Skeleton II. This is a fact of considerable importance, because it 
deniQnstrates that the skeleton belonged to the same layer (the muck 
layer, No. 3). 
Had the artifacts not been found in a layer which bears also the 
bones of long-extinct animals, no one could have thought for a 
moment of attributing them to any people other than the ordinary 
American Indian. 
Professor Holmes s report on the pottery, which he subjected to a 
special examination, follows: 
REPORT ON THE POTTERY, BY W. H. HOLMES 
&quot; I have examined with great care the pottery fragments obtained 
from the site of the discovery of human remains associated with 
Pleistocene deposits near Vero, Florida. They represent small and 
moderately large vessels, ranging in form from simple cups to deep 
bowls and shallow, wide-mouthed pots forms in common use among 
the Indian tribes of Florida. Compared with corresponding ware 
from the Florida sand mounds and from occupied sites generally 
throughout Florida and southern Georgia, no significant distinctions 
can be made in material, shape, indications of use, or embellishment. 
Many of the fragments bear traces of use over fire, being coated quite 
thickly with hardened soot. The decorated pieces show impressions 
of checkered paddles or stamps identical in character with the pre 
vailing decoration of the Indian earthenware of Florida. The pot 
tery as well as the bone implements from this place indicate clearly 
that it is the site of an ordinary Indian village and the archeologist 
acquainted with Indian customs would expect to find burials at usual 
depths beneath and about the site. The reference of these artifacts 
to a people of geological antiquity can but illustrate the lack of 
appreciation of the ordinary conditions and phenomena of Indian 
occupancy on the part of those who first brought these finds to the 
attention of the public.&quot; 
W. H. HOLMES. 
Sic transit gloria hominis Veroensis. 
