Word: bison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carnivores not yet identified; under that a layer of "sterile" yellow ochre (containing no bones or implements), showing that the cave was uninhabited during a wet spell; under that the Sandia layer (see cut), containing lance or javelin points, remains of fires, bones of elephants, horses, camels, sloths and bison...
...skeletons have never been found, but whose tools have turned up in abundance. "Folsom points" are weapons shaped like spearheads, with shallow grooves flaked out on each side. First Folsom find was made near Folsom, N. M., in 1926. The weapons were intermingled with the bones of long-extinct bison. Skeptical anthropologists first wrote off this association as accidental. Then Jesse Dade Figgins of Colorado, one of the Folsom pioneers, found two points actually between the ribs of a fossil bison. He left the exhibit undisturbed in the ground, summoned anthropologists to come and look. They did, and this time...
...more recently discovered Folsom site in Colorado, the Lindenmeier site, .appeared on geological evidence to be even older. A point was found there actually imbedded in a bison vertebra. Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Jr., of Dr. Hrdlicka's own Smithsonian Institution, put its age at 20,000 years...
...week off from the opera, he makes for the woods of Maine or North Dakota, where he prowls around with a brass hunting horn and a brace of dogs, gunning for ducks, rabbits, deer. He has shot panthers in South America, once bagged a 1,600-lb. bison in North Dakota. In New Brunswick he shot a bear, had it dressed and smoked and toted the meat back to his Manhattan apartment. For weeks smoked shanks and shoulders cluttered the Melchior home, hung in closets, dangled out the windows over busy Broadway. He tried to eat it all, but failed...