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According to Anthropologist David Cole, who is photographing the carvings, modern Indians of the Northwest have no traditions about the ancient people who made the rock carvings. The carvings themselves cannot be dated by any known method, but carbon-14 tests of an organic material from a nearby mound show that the region was inhabited 9,000 years ago. Presumably the rock carvers depended on the Columbia salmon, as later Indians did, but where they came from and what happened to them no one knows. The mystery may be solved by study of the carvings- if they are saved...
...Kinsey report will go on-and on. Dr. Paul H. Gebhard, an anthropologist and the new executive director of Indiana University's Institute for Sex Research, announced last week that Founder Alfred C. Kinsey had left enough material, compiled over 18 years, to fill 20 volumes beyond the two already published. Expected next year: a book with the tentative and unconsciously funny title, Pregnancy and Its Outcome, which will devote itself to a study of pregnancies (planned and accidental), births (live and still), and abortions (spontaneous and induced...
...contain nothing but ashes from their fires. Food is usually scarce, and women are scarcer. Male births among the Pygmies, says Father Gusinde, outnumber female births four to one, and young Pygmy women are apt to be stolen by big, bad lowlanders. "Good number of bachelors roaming around," says Anthropologist Gusinde...
...contentment of the Pygmies puzzled the anthropologist, and he searched for a reason for it. After studying their diet, he decided that their euphoria is due to one of their favorite dishes: big beetles and their larvae, the size of small sausages. A lucky Pygmy may find as many as 100 larvae in a riddled tree trunk. He bakes them with hot stones in a hole in the ground (New England clambake technique), and when he has eaten his fill, he feels as contented as a Hollywood agent tranquilized with Miltown...
Helping Miss U.S. and two Crimeds with the final decision were Dr. Edwin Hunt, university anthropologist, Carroll f. Miles, Dunster House senior tutor, Leigh Hoadley, master of Leverett House, and Dr. Lynn Loomis of the math department...