Word: caving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onlooker at Kappler's trial (the first war crimes trial by an Italian court) had made the Ardeatine pilgrimage to mourn husband or son; the crowd stiffened with horror as Kappler dryly told how 30 SS men had rounded up the victims and taken them out to the cave. The officer who was to fire first got sick at the scene; Kappler explained to the court that he had had to fire the first shot to encourage the weakling...
Finally the Hal Roach studio cast her as a scantily clad cave woman in a picture called One Million B.C. She hit the jackpot. A pressagent nicknamed her the "Ping Girl," explained somewhat illogically, "she makes you purr." The money, the cars, the house, the. clothes, the adulation followed...
Skull with a Smile. Last week the S.S. Marine Carp got back to the U.S. bearing an archeological treasure. It was the skull of an eight-year-old boy whom Father J. Franklin Ewing, SJ. has posthumously named (60,000 years after death) Egbert. Most of the little cave boy's bones are still imbedded in a block of stone, but the skull is exposed. It has, thinks Father Ewing, "a very pleasant smile...
Digging down through the debris before finding Egbert was like journeying into the past with a time machine. The cave was a very desirable parcel of Stone Age real estate. Family after family had lived and worked in its shelter, gradually raising the floor level with dirt and refuse. In the upper layers tools and weapons were comparatively sophisticated. Grinding stones showed that Neolithic exquisites had used pigments for painting or cosmetics. Lower down, artifacts were cruder...
Compressed into 75 feet of debris were proofs of slow climatic changes as the great glacier to the north advanced or receded. During one long period the cave dwellers ate snails, heaping the empty shells around the dinner table. At another, the ancient hunters fed their families on rhinoceros meat. Father Ewing believes that the cave deposits give an accurate chronology of climate and cultural changes in the ancient Near East...