Word: cavemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life," the old priest recalls. Now he had more time for his beloved cave dwellers. Nearly every day, after saying early Mass, he changed into workman's clothes and took off on his motorcycle for Mt. Castillo. Out of the dirt floors came all the apparatus of the cavemen's lives: carved scepters, bone pins and needles, harpoons, stone lamps. Father Jesus' two-room apartment was soon full to overflowing. He appealed to the city for a place to house his collection, and was turned down. Churchmen told him that his motorcycling in layman's clothes...
Stick to the Job. By this time Father Jesus was convinced that the, twisting, crossing passages formed a sort of city, perhaps the first in prehistory. He longed to penetrate all its mysteries. Perhaps he would find some central place where the cavemen held the first meetings or ceremonies of human society...
Slowly the collection at the museum grew, and with it grew Father Jesus' knowledge of the cavemen's customs. One thing was still lacking: the central meeting place of their social life. This year an assistant who was climbing a face of the mountain found a narrow opening and threw a lighted newspaper into it. Inside was a great cavern...
Coon and Dupree found the fossils in a cave buried under more than 30 feet of gravel and sand. One of the skills had been completely shattered by the collapsed roof. Coon said fragments of the other two, when pieced together, indicated the cavemen were Homo Sapiens...
Bones of three cavemen, whose discovery may upset traditional theories of evolution, were dug up in Tohran, Iran this month by a former University professor and a first year graduate student...