Word: bisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virginia, but Folsom Man apparently built no dwellings, and he did not leave his bones where they would be preserved for modern diggers. Chief argument for his antiquity was that his characteristic spear points are often found associated with the bones of animals, particularly a kind of now-extinct bison (Bison taylori). But not all experts were convinced by such evidence; Bison taylori, they objected, may have been around until fairly recent times...
Last week, Dr. Willard F. Libby of the University of Chicago gave his decision on some charred bison bones sent to him by Dr. Elias Howard Sellards of Austin, Texas, who took them from a deposit full of distinctive Folsom artifacts. Dr. Libby measured the radioactivity of the carbon in the remains of the bones' organic material.* His conclusion: the bison died (and was probably cooked and eaten) about 10,000 years ago. Therefore, Folsom Man must have been a bison-chasing Texan at that remote period...
...weeks ago, I borrowed six bits from my roommate and went downtown to see a double feature pairing a picture called "Western Union" with another about Buffalo Bill. Aside from "Buffalo Bill's" Technicolor, they were pretty similar. Both used stock shots of bison chomping grass, both featured hundreds of war-painted extras in multi-feathered athletic supporters, both showed a genuine social concern for the plight of the Indian. More than this, "Buffalo Bill" included some scenes of a burning camp, and these--possibly discovered lying around loose on the cutting room floor--were reprinted in black-and-white...