The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-31

and warfare to the Peabody Museum
at Harvard. Prof Stern was formerly
connected with the Glider archaeology
cal survey of the western bank Of the
Missouri River, and it was his personal
acquaintance with the field which de-
! cided Harvard to undertake the eX-
ploration.
So numerous are these prehistoric
remains that Dr. R. F. Glider, we'll
/ known archaeologist, who has spent
eight years on a survey within p miles
of Omaha, recently announced that in
his opi.ion the population Of the Mis-
souri, Valley is not so great nor so
dense as was that Of tha civilization
which passed away thousands Of years
, ago.
Fate OF Race Unknown.
Both Prof Stern and Dr.. Glider were
struck with the absence OF anything
showing, or even indicating, the fate
of the people who so thickly inhabit-
ed this country. They simply disap-
peared. But they left their parapher-
MALTA behind them. Their crude agrl-
cultural implements remained in the
corners of their houses, which finally
rotted and fell in, but they were not
destroyed by force. The pots and rude
cooking utensils were, in many cases,
left boiling en- the fires which burn
ed in the centre of the lodges. Their
hone fshhooks were left hanging to
the walls. Their instruments OF war
their clubs, their bows and arrows
and their spears-remained IN their
accustomed places. Their little orna-
ments of personal adornment stays IN
the family cache, and even their ar
ticles of feed were left in the burrows
used as larders.
The thousands Of people seem to have
simply gone out of their homes for
moment and then failed to return. The
Indians do not know where they went.
and they have not single tradition as
to who they were They lived in the
Missouri River Valley ages before the
red man came.
The ruins which Harvard men
will excavate and explore are scatter
ed up and down the Missouri River
for miles and miles. They consist alto
gether of house SITES" The houses
were partly within the ground and
partly without. The roofs were Of clay,
and when, after the great tragedy,
which wiped out the nation, the sup
porting timbers rotted, the dirt fell
down into the excavations, covering
everything the fleeing people left be-
hind. In time dust and dirt >sifted in
and flied these house sites until they
were almost level with the surround
ing ground. Now, the old houses are
indicated by a slight depression, only
la few inches deep.
Ruins Without Limit.
In numbers those old ruins are al
most without limit. According to DR..
Glider. every hill between Sioux City
and Kansas City is simply vast house
site. And in every one explored there
are the same indications of a hasty
| fight and a great tragedy.
These ruins do not appear On the
Iowa side Of the Missouri, but are con-
fined altogether to the Nebraska side.
However, there are remains of an en-
tirely different people and another CIV
ilization On the Iowa hills. That the
two races lived in entirely different
ages is shown by the fact that none
of the implements common On one side
of the river is found On the other side.
In many respects these ancient .peo-
pie were entirely foreign to any other
whose remains have ever been found
in America. This is shown by the i'm
plements left behind when they took
their fight. Among these is beautl-
fully carved head with distinctly Egyp-
tian features, including the rectangu-
lar ear guards worn by them, entirely
foreign to anything ever before found
On the American Continent. OF 1t
James Mooney, of the American Du-
reau of ethnology, said: ut is the
! greatest archaeological find in Ameri-
ca in a century, and nothing like 1t has
ever before been found" Har.iA l.
Smith, head of the archaeological sur
vey of Canada, who saw the little head
some time ago, announced that he was
entirely unable to classify it, and that
| certainly it belonged to a culture OF