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...Caught a coon trying to break into my house last night," he said...
...went on stolidly. "When a policeman arrived this nig's tongue was hanging out. His face was yellow. The policeman said if we left him another five minutes he'd be dead. I said, 'Ag, man, then you'll charge me with killing a coon.' He said he wouldn't and only the two of us would know...
Last February, Dr. Carleton ("Cannonball") Coon, a University of Pennsylvania archaeologist who had made a specialty of Iran, revisited the area around Ghar Hotu.* In semidarkness, assorted Iranian laborers and kibitzers, directed by Dr. Coon and his young (25) Harvard assistant, Louis Dupree, stripped layer after layer from the surface of the cave. At the Iron Age layer they turned up arrowheads, pins and pottery. The Bronze Age yielded javelin heads, rings and vases. Deeper down they found fine painted crocks, and then "software Neolithic," probably the oldest plain Neolithic pottery on record...
...lost men of Hotu differ from moderns mainly in their reduced brain capacity. They were heavy-set and stood about 5 ft. 8 in., with low-placed eyes, long teeth, and perfectly human chins. Last week, in Teheran, still bubbling with excitement, Dr. Coon speculated on the importance of the discovery. "We have proven that men of human type existed contemporaneously with more primitive forms elsewhere . . . Here we are on the main line of evolution." Backed up by further study, his discovery may upset the prevalent notion that modern man is descended from the subhuman Neanderthal. According to Coon...
Their digging on the Caspian done for this year, Coon and Dupree are already planning another expedition. Native workmen told them a fabulous tale of immense stone sculpture in another cave, hidden in high, wild mountains to the south. If they can, they will return next year. But time may be running out. Like other scientists, they fear the Russians will take over the "heartland" of archaeology...