Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1919 — DISPUTE OVER HUMAN BONES [ARTICLE]

DISPUTE OVER HUMAN BONES

Discovery in Florida Gives Scientists Opportunity to Indulge in a Lively Squabble. j ' - • ; - Geologists are having a lively controversy among : themselves over certain human remains which have been unearthed at Vero, Fla. Human bones were found in geological formations of the pleistocene or glacial period; man existed in America during that early age. But, objectors interpose, the skeletal remains are those of a modern sort of man, a regular Indian type. So recent type at that period Is incredible. The individual must have been buried in the ancient - strata. The other side answers that burial Is out Of question. The formation of the earth above the bones indicated gradual natural accumulation, and not the heaping of earth Into a grave. That the bones Were scattered some twenty feet from the others, which Indicates that they drifted while on the surface (how could burled bones move twenty feet through the soil); and, further, that the fact of the remains bbing of a modern tj-pe of man merely shows' that this modern type of man lived in the pleistocene age.