The Fossiliferous Basin of Tarija, Bolivia

The reported findings of remains supposedly of Homo primigenius in the Tarija Basin in southern Bolivia and the doubts connected with the stratigraphic position of these remains have moved the writer, at the kind request of Professor Paul Rivet, former director of the Musée de l'Homme of Paris, and the special invitation of the Bolivian government, to undertake a field investigation of the occurrence in question. Thus, it could be clearly established that these human skulls and other skeletal parts in the Tarija Basin have no relation to the Pleistocene mammal fauna and are evidently remains of the much later pre-Colom-bian man.