Abstract

Numerous finds of human skeletons and artifacts in Argentina, all buried in soft deposits, have led to a large literature and to controversies over the antiquity of man. Investigations of these finds by Hrdlicta and the geologic work of his companion, Bailey Willis, proved: (1) that all the skeletons are those of Homo sapiens; (2) that many occur close to the surface in material subject to recent slumping and wind action; (3) that the stratigraphy of the Pampean series is not so distinctive that horizons determined by vertebrate fossils may always be recognized at localities where the fossils are absent; (4) that none of the finds involve stone cultures sufficiently distinctive from those of the modern Indians to demand recognition as being ancient.

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