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...each group. "Each one of these figures," he said, "is someone I have known. The last figure I made is the mother holding her child in the air. They both died at the child's birth. The old man leaning down to touch his dogs lived in a cave in France. He wanted no part of civilization. He killed his dogs before he died. The group of father, daughter and son is a French family killed in an automobile accident. Here is a wife with her husband following her. The wife has died before the husband and she thinks...
Where did human society begin? Father Jesus Carballo, 76-year-old priest-archaeologist, believes that it might have had its start near his own parish in Santander, on the north coast of Spain. Father Carballo is chief explorer of Mt. Castillo, a prehistoric cave city where ancient man lived some 12,000 years ago while the glaciers crawled over Europe. After nearly 50 years of work, he has found the heart of the city, deep inside the mountain...
...That was the greatest day of my 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...
Birth of Society. Old Father Jesus was lowered into the cave. The nearest chamber was 300 feet wide, with drawings of bison decorating the walls. Behind it was a maze of passages. He pushed into their darkness. About 1,000 feet inside the mountain he found what he had hoped for: in the middle of a chamber stood a polished stone, carved to resemble a bison. At one side was a thronelike seat for a priest or chief. "This was their main sanctuary," said Father Jesus. "It was their cathedral, the heart of the prehistoric city of Mt. Castillo...
...Backseat drivers are much the same (cave wife being dragged by caveman: "Avoid loose stones, and watch out for the Brontosaurus round the corner...