The Antiquity of Man in South America

Abstract

THE views held by Dr. Florentino Ameghino as to the antiquity of man in South America are based on the occurrence of split bones, and bones shcfeing signs of having been cut, side by side with certain scoriaceous products, the “tierras cocidas” of Argentina. We are not as yet in possession of figures of the bones, and it may be presumed that they are regarded as of less importance than the baked and reddened earths. A lively controversy has arisen round the latter, and the question appears to be one that must be decided by the geologist rather than by the anthropologist.