The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-11-27

with these people, judging fro mthe
quantity of bison bones found in the
cache of every cave.
! But looking at the dim history of
the Toltccs of Mexico and Central
America from the seventh century of
1904, a. d.. we find even they were
not cannibals from choice, but that
the terrible drouths and famines of
the latter part of the eleventh cen
fury gave rise to the practice of
human sacrafices.
it was here too, following the terri
BILE famines that history draws the
curtain of Oblivion over the Toltecs
and Mayas. II is here they disappear
from the stage of known history
1t is here that ancient records cease
TO record the movements of these
unhappy people rather than to say
that they fled from the famine and
the living fury of Aztec warriors,
now just breaking over the horizon
of history. They fled indeed. it is
recorded, some to Central America,
some to Yucatan and others history
knows not where. Those settled in
Central American and Yusatan left
the marks of their civilization in
the shape of pyramids and other
structures. the most colossal archi-
lecture of the Western Hemisphere.
But in few short years they were
oblitrated by the bloodthirsty races
of Aztecs, who altho the Spaniards
reported them as partly civilized.
were in reality destroyers rather than
builders. and borrowed all their art
and science from their gentler prede-
cessors, the Toltecs and the Mayas.
Who, then, shall say that in the
general exploits following the famine,
a fragment of these semicultured Toll
tees did not follow the better pas
lures northward and finally build
crude empire in the Missouri Valley?
True. they did not build pyramids
here, but there was no stone. Be
sides, they did not survive many CEN
turtles in the fertule valley before the
Caddo people. marauding tribe of
huntsmen and warriors, plundered
their peaceful homes and extermin-
ated them.
DR.. c. w. NJ. Poynter professor of
anatomy of the university of Nebras-
ka, employed a scientific clay model
er, Miss Myra Warner. to construct
the heads and faces of members of |
the lost race In clay. This was done
accor1...s - the sc SETTLE German :
system of skull measurements, where !
by the face of the individual may be
faithfully constructed over the skull
or essential parts of the skull The
facial characters produced bear out
the theory that these were a peace
able people, fol. the faces are not the /
faces of the North American
Indians.
Prof. Stems is silent. but enthusias
tic in his summers work. No matter
how important the remains he digs
up, he quietly lays them into a bag
and digs for more. He will not even
wash and clean the images and relics
until he gets back to his labratory
At Harvard. While he is in the field
he says he will give his time to field
work. Once back at the museum
he will clean up the specimens, cata-
og them. compare and classify. 1t
s then that he will go more exhaus-
ivt'y into the study of the probable
between this and ancient
Mexican races. It. is limited that his
official report will bring out some
startling .ocrs.
This people in the Missouri Valley
lived in caves rectangular and about
,oX40 feet in dimensions. How they
this great quantity of earth
s "A puzzle to science. The caves
proper were some four or five feet
leep. What constituted the roof ma
erial is not known.
Into the clay floor of each and
every home is dug jug-shaped
cache, in which to day are found
mashed and charred bones, the re-
mains of the cannibal feasts and all
he other principle relics of value.
This jug-shaped cache in the floor
extended an additional three of four
feet beneath the cave floor proper.
The location of an ancient cave
today is detested by a slight saucer
shaped depression in the sod of the
prairie. The depression is often from
thirty to forty feet indiameter, and
instead of rectangular on the sur
face of the rod is today nearly circu-
lar as a result Of centuries of wealth
ering, The caves have been spoken
Of as the buffalo wallOw" type of
houses.