May 11, 19014, 
Mx. Thomas Aw Joyce, 
Department of Ethnography , 
| British Museum, London, 
My dear Mr. Joyce: 
I have had occasion to go pretty carefully 
ever your admirable work on South American Archaeology 
‘and, ag I wrote you before, am still much pleased with 
the work, but I have come across your references to the 
evidence of very carly man on the continent and beg to 
be permitted to ask a question and to submit my views 
on certain points. On page 227 you refer to the dis-~- 
covery of thé jaw bone of a saber-tooth cat with a 
flint arrow-head fixed in it. I have not been able 
to find the authority for this statement and trust that 
you will be so good as to give it me, 
With regard to the so-called palaeolithic 
jinplements of Patagonia, page 258, I want to tell you 
that to my mind there is not the least ground for call- 
ing any of these palaeolithic. Doctor Outes was doubt~ 
‘Less following the old assumption, quite right in the 
O1d World but quite wrong in the New, that certain types 
