Bulletin, 52. köideU.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 |
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AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN ancient animals antiquity Argentina Arroyo atlas atlases barranca border breadth Buenos Aires BULLETIN 52 PLATE BUREAU OF AMERICAN Campo Peralta carapace cave characteristics chipped coast color crania deformation deposits Diameter Diprothomo dunes earth Ensenadean epoch erosion ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 52 evidence extinct femora femur flakes Fontezuelas fossil fragments frontal geologic glass glyptodon Homo pampaus Hrdlička human bones human remains Indian Lagoa Santa layer Lehmann-Nitsche linea aspera locality loess lower jaw magnetite Mar del Plata material meters mineral Miramar modern Monte Hermoso Museo Nacional Necochea observed orbits pampas Pampean Pampean formation Pampean terrane parietal pebbles plagioclase playas posterior present primitive probably Professor Ameghino pyroxene quartz quartzite recent refractive index region ridges Rio Negro Roth sand scoria shaft Siasgo skeletal skeleton skull South species Specimen label stone supraorbital supraorbital ridges surface suture Tetraprothomo tierra cocida tion tosca trochanter volcanic wind writer
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Page 52 - AMEGHINO, F. Las formaciones sedimentarias de la región litoral de Mar del Plata y Chupalmaláii.
Page 388 - La industria de la piedra quebrada en el mioceno superior de Monte Hermoso.
Page 175 - As to the statements of Lund, Reinhardt, and Kollmann, that the skulls of Lagoa Santa offer well-defined characteristics of American crania and of those of the actual Indians, ten Kate says: "I accept willingly the view that the skulls of Lagoa Santa offer great analogies with other American series, notably with the Botocudos and natives of Lower California;" but he is not willing to admit, on account of the great differences in the craniologic characteristics of the different Indians, that the form...
Page 184 - In view of all the above facts and considerations, it seems quite evident that the human remains from the Lagoa Santa caves can not be accepted, without further and more conclusive proofs, as belonging to a race which lived contemporaneously with the extinct species of animals found in the same caves...
Page 199 - ... composed exclusively of fine sand and clay mixed together. The stratum, number 9, which is more than 1.5 m. in thickness, is only distinguished from the preceding in that it contains a larger proportion of clay. In this layer of pampean soil, at the base of the excavation indicated in the diagram, and at a lower level than the bed of the stream, there...
Page 52 - AMEGHINO, F. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina, 2 vols., Buenos Aires, 1889, pp.
Page 386 - America there have been brought forth thus far tangible traces of either geologically ancient man himself or of any precursors of the human race. This should not be taken as a categorical denial of the existence of early man in South America, however improbable such a presence may now appear...
Page 36 - The amount of cement is seldom great enough to close the openings between the individual shells, though in some localities the process of cementation has proceeded far enough to produce a rather compact fossiliferous limestone.
Page 386 - The conclusions of the writers with regard to the evidence thus far furnished are that it fails to establish the claim that in South 21535"— Bull. 52—12 25 385 America there have been brought forth thus far tangible traces of either geologically ancient man himself or of any precursors of the human race.
Page 387 - Lista de las especies de mamíferos fósiles del mioceno superior de Monte Hermoso hasta ahora conocidos. In 8', de 21 páginas. Buenos Aires, Junio de 1888. 50. El temblor del 4 de Junio de 1888: Sus antecedentes geológicos.