LANSING MAN

lansing 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 believed to 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).