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THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1963 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOflD. OREGON i v 1 ?) V ARKANSAS ENTRY - Angels Camp, Calif., Mayor V. T. Minto views with alarm the huge (rog, right, that Arkansas ' Gov. Orval Faubus is putting against the "Celebrated Jump ing Frog of Calaveras County" in the International Frog Jump at Angels Camp May 18-19. The "Arkansas Traveler" measures IB Inches from nose to toe. The Calaveras frog, left, is of normal size but a similar frog in 1954 set the ' world's record Jump at 16 feet, 10 inches. There is a $1,000 purse for the frog that can break the record. (UPI) New Mexico May Preserve Early Man Deposits Found in Sand Gravel Pit . ..... . i , : J . u Jinnlni, i In throa rtla'oa nmnnff thp I Rf ill nthpr anpcialfe (Editor's not: In a graval pit in ailirn Ntw Max ico. scientists are unearth ing a cradla of prehistoric American civilisation. Gor don K. Graaves, publishar of the Porialts. N.M.. News Tribun hara reports on the starch for knowladg of th first Amaricans.) By GORDON K- GREAVES Written For United Prats International Portalcs, N.M. - (UPD - A 10-foot deep cut through the dry bed of a 12.000-year-old lake on the plains of eastern New Mexico may provide the answers of classic archcologi cal puzzles in the new world. The bank, cut by bulldozers In the process of mining sand and gravel, has been described by archeologists as the most Important early man deposit in the entire new world. The New Mexico legislature recently appropriated $100. 000 to preserve the site and erect a building over the de posits if it can be acquired by the state. Pusilts Could Ba Solved Among the puzzles that pos sibly could be solved by pains taking examination of evi dence in the old lake bed: Why did the horse, along with the camel and the ele phant - like mammoth, dis appear from the Americas from Canada to Patagona, at least 10.000 years before Co lumbus brought the old world horse to this continent? When did the first hu man being arrive on this con tinent? There is ample evi dence that he didn't evolve in the pattern of early man in Africa. When did early Ameri can man first start gathering seeds to supplement his meat diet? When did he start cul tivating plants? Art Slow to Ventura Archeologists are slow to venture opinions on these questions, but the evidence that has come to light in this site has already caused revi sion of many prior conceptions about early man. They are piecing together the life and times of the con tinent's first human inhabi tants. Each year brings new techniques which throw new light on the mystery. Botanists, for example, have been able to determine what plants grew during each of the ages represented in the layers of the old lake. Nu clear physics has provided the ! carbon 14 method of dating Negro on Tennessee Zl be , f Bocd of Education lenee for an economist to un- Nashville. Tenn. -IW- Gov ravel the question of whetb- that early man attacked the animals while they were bog ged down in the mud. But the position of the bones on the firm gravel beds shattered that theory. Early man lived continu ously on these high plains for at least 12.000 years, and the dried layers of this lake bed have preserved enough of the tools of these ages to enable scientists to draw tentative conclusions about the cul tures that evolved. Students of early man say this lake bed has been an oasis for human and animal life. And although the de posits have been known since IMS. m:nt excavations have centered attention on the north bank. The discovery which has led to the widespread interest in the site came last November. On Thanksgiving Day, Dr. F E. Green, a Texas Tech arche ologist, and his wife were poking around in an area cleared by bulldozers. Green first found a bit of a mammoth tooth, then exca vated enough to realize that an unusually good specimen of the post ice age animal was buried there. Helped by other archeolo gists, he laid bare the almost intact skeleton of a young mammoth. More important, bits and pieces of flaked stone were found among the bones. War- nica supervised the diggln during this time and careful ly numbered each flint or bone "artifact" as it was un covered. He left a pedestal of undisturbed earth under each discovery, and these pedestals were marked with tags bear ing numbers corresponding to the artifact. The bones were carefully treated with preserv ative and left in their clay matrix. Turned Up In Numbers Up to this time, it was rare to find a man-made tool in less than three days of pains taking digging, but in this site, scrapers, blades, knives and spear points were turned up in numbers. In three places among the bones were found small pieces of charred bone. These were considered of special signifi cance, and raised the hope that a hearth might be un covered. The possibility of finding a human skeleton tan talized the diggers constantly. But Dr. Jim Hester of the Museum of New Mexico says the chance of such a discov ery is one In a million. Specialists are studying ma terial recovered at several dif ferent levels of the lake bed. A rounded stone, with one side flat, found among the mammoth bones is believed to be the world's oldest mano a tool used to grind seed. Still other specialists ara studying the technique of the flaking of "blades" found in the 12,000-year level. Dr. Hes ter says these bear a striking similarity to stone implements found in Siberia, and these could lead to a more exact dating of the time when man followed the mammoth over the ice of the Bering Strait to a new world. Gov. Jack M. Campbell has taken a personal interest in the site. He has worked out an agree ment with the owner of tha pit to divert his gravel oper ation from the area until it can be determined if the site can be preserved. er each man was entirely self sufficient, or depended upon his neighbors. The closest flint quarries to the area are on the Canadian river near Amarillo, Tex., and it already has been determined that at least half the artifacts found in this deposit came from there, leaving the question Was there trade 12.000 years ago, or did each hunter per sonally go to the source for his ammunition? Gam Hunters Question A puzzle to big game hunt ers is how a man, with pos sibly a hand held launcher, could drop a mammoth in its tracks when a modern high powered rifle seldom can stop an elephant immediately. Until the recent excava tions, it had been speculated Frank Clement has ap pointed Negro educator to the State Board of Lducation, the first such post ever to be held by a Negro in Ten nessee. Dr. Harold West, president of Meharry Medical College, was the second Negro to be appointed to a high post in the Clement administration within the past week. 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