LANSING

See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

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