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...Million B. C. (United Artists), Hollywood's most important contribution to paleontology since The Lost World, spectacularly illustrates the Hal Roach theory of evolution-when Cave Boy meets Cave Girl there is a big improvement in mankind's table manners. Early in 1,000,000 B. C. Cave Boy is still tearing off hunks of roast triceratops, scrambling up a high rock to squat and gnaw. By 999,999 B. C. Cave Girl has him eating out of a clam shell. She is less successful with the shoals of hungry reptiles which swarm into the picture from practically...
Sandia Man's old home is a cave on the side of a canyon in New Mexico's rugged Sandia mountains. It was discovered in 1935, has since been cleared for more than 150 yards under the direction of Archeologist Frank Cummings Hibben of the nearby University of New Mexico. The floor, as found, was littered with droppings of rats and bats. Under that was a stalagmite formation made of limestone dissolved from the roof; under that a Folsom layer containing typical Folsom spearpoints, charcoal, bones of sloths and catlike carnivores not yet identified; under that a layer...
Unlike Folsom points, which at the butt ends are square and barbed, Sandia points are pointed at both ends, have a characteristic indentation or "shoulder" on one side. Apparently Sandia Man built fires at the cave mouth to cook the animals he killed, and ate them inside. Like Folsom Man, he is a ghost-no human skeletal material has been found. But Dr. Hibben plans further excavation this summer, hopes that remains of Sandia Man, or of Folsom Man, or of both, may come to light...
...science, of moppets growing up in forest or jungle without human contacts, whether with or without animal foster parents. One authentic woodland waif was the "Wild Boy of Aveyron," found in a French forest in 1799. Others were Amala and Kamala, two children discovered, in 1921, living in a cave in India with wolves...
...more its divinity is evidenced," let General Mills' Adam & Eve sound as human as Betty & Bob. Living, after the Fall, in a "nice, comfortable hut" which Adam has built, Eve recalls the birth of Cain: "The pain lasted all that night . . . and I lay there in the cave . . . listening to the wind. . . . Finally ... I cried out to you. ... I said I couldn't bear the pain any longer . . . and . . . you ran outside. I thought I'd never see you again...