Evening star., 1933-09-24

heved to have become extinct in North
America before the end of the Pleistocens
period"
Many fragments of darts were found in the
underground chamber which stretched for
about 300 feet A band of early Americana
probably stumbled upon the sloths in ths
cavern and battle to death resulted.
TO add further proof that man cut his teeth
quite some time ago, Dr. Cummings dug
from beneath a mastodon's bones at Sulphur
Springs, Ariz, burned bits of charcoal and
hand Clipped stones. The mastodon, although
he was not quite as large as the circus ele-
phant lived at the same time as the imperial
elephant.
His tribe numbered into the tens Of
thousands and spread into every part of this
continent. The bones of his short, massive
limbs low forehead and eight foot tusks have
often been found but seldom in connection
with man.
AS though this were not enough for one
time, the Museum of Northern Arizona has
finished excavations at the site of old spring
near Tuba City, on the Navajo Indian reser-
vation. They found the remains of extinct
camel, similar to the South American llama;
a large bison, a big horse and the Columbian
mammoth, elephant somewhat smaller than
the imperial one Mingled with these old
DOneS were OaTt anu spear points,.
II you really want, though to send your
imagination skYrocketing into dizzy heights.
travel with Dr. Samuel Hubbard into Hava
Supai Canyon, not far from the Grand Canyon.
Through research that he had had under
way from 1894, DR.. Hubbard, curator of the
Oakland. Calf. Museum, discovered high on
the walls of the canyon a Photograph of q
dinosaur which lived in what is popularity
called the Age of Reptiles, some 100000
years ago.
"The fact that some prehistoric man made
q Photograph of dinoSaur on the walls of this
canyon completely upsets all of our theories
regarding the antiquity of man." he declares.
THAT dinosaurs were in the vicinity is proved
by the tracks we discovered in the Painted
Desert, not over 100 miles from the picture.
How were the photographs made? The red
sandstone contains a trace of iron. This iron,
through the alchemy of unknown ages of time.
forms thin black scale on the surface of the
stone called desert varnish.'
"By taking any sharp point such as piece
OF flint, and cutting through this black surface.
the red stone is revealed underneath. thus
making picture, without the use of pigment,
which is practically imperishable.
"The fact that the animal is upright and
balanced on its tail would seem to indicate that
the prehistoric artist must have seen it alive"
h lot far from the dinosaur drawing is ono
Of an elephant attacking a man and sew
eral Of the Arabian ibex the true goats which
have never been known 10 inhabit America.
What was the first American like?
Archeologists picture him possibly not much
more than five feet tall and possessed of
powerful lower limbs bulging muscles at the
nape of his neck q broad nose, a receding
forehead and a protruding jaw. He sagged
forward at the knees as he swung through his
tropical paradise.
He lived in turbulent world. The ice pack
was slowly moving southwark. driving before
it thousands of herds of great elephants.
bisons, saber-toothed tigers, sloths, tapirs,
armored gyptodons. musk OK, mountain goats.
brown bears camels, namas and horses-au
larger than any living species.
They Stampeded into the warm Southwest
by the hundreds of thousands And man pre-
sumably came with them fighting the tigers
and elephants, eating the smaller animalA