Abstract
THE Yale expedition to Peru has made an important discovery of human remains in the vicinity of Cuzco, which are described in the April number of the American Journal of Science. We have, first, a full report of the circumstances of the “find” by the director of the expedition, Mr. Hiram Bingham. Following this, Mr. I. Bowman contributes a very cautious and well-considered report on the geological position. He comes to the conclusion that the beds in which the remains were found belong to a glacial series; that the bones were deposited during a period of pronounced alluviation; that since their deposition they were overlaid by from 75 to 100 ft. of gravel, and were at a later period partially eroded. Though at first sight the immediate surroundings suggest the occurrence of a landslip, this view does not commend itself to him, and he provisionally estimates the age of the remains at from 20,000 to 40,000 years.
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