THURSDAY. MAY 9. 1963
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOflD. OREGON
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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
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(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
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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.
Clement earlier had named
Willard Bowden, a Negro, to
the State Pardons and Paroles
Board
BOMB FOUND
- Portland - (HID - A home
made dynamite bomb was
found attached to the front
door at the home of Ronley
J. Duncan, a Portland Stale
College student, and his wife
Wednesday.
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