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See also:LANSING See also:MAN , the See also:term applied by See also:American ethnologists to certain human remains discovered in 1902 during the digging of a cellar near See also:Lansing, See also:Kansas, and by some authorities believedto represent a prehistoric type of See also:man . They include a See also:skull and several large adult bones and a See also:child's See also:jaw . They were found beneath 20 ft. of undisturbed silt, in a position indicating intentional See also:burial . The skull is preserved in the U . S . See also:National Museum at See also:Washington . It is similar in shape to those of historic See also:Indians of the region . Its ethnological value as indicating the existence of man on the See also:Missouri in the glacial See also:period is very doubtful, it being impossible accurately to determine the See also:age of the deposits . See Handbook of American Indians (Washington, 1907) . |
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