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...white sand, they established that the skull belonged to an individual, most likely a young woman, who lived more than 10,000 years ago. She is almost certainly the oldest American whose bones have been found. This conclusion was backed by the fluorine tests and by the bones of extinct animals found in the sand with the skull...
...limited number of each vane (an average of 20) will be reproduced for collectors at prices up to $500 (price in the 1850s: about $60). After that, Antique Hunter Halpert will donate the molds to a museum, and folk sculpture of weather vanes is likely to become as extinct as figurehead carving for clipper ships...
...then go stalking through a giant welter of tunnels in search of survivors. Two queen ants, they discover, have flown the nest. Aghast, the entomologist rushes to Washington to tell an emergency meeting of VIPs that if the queens succeed in breeding a new generation, "man will probably be extinct within nine months...
...most famous "oldest American" is Folsom man, known by his peculiar, fluted spearheads. These "points" have turned up in many parts of the U.S., and since they have been found with the bones of extinct animals, they are supposed to be about 10,000 years old. But Folsom man himself is an anthropological ghost; his own bones have not been found...
...Extinct Animals. On vacation a few days later, he went to Santa Fe and told Anthropologist Fred Wendorf of the Museum of New Mexico about his bones and points. Dr. Wendorf was so enthusiastic that Glasscock gave him the whole collection. Soon Wendorf and a group of learned colleagues were digging a trench at the Midland site. They found a few more bone fragments, and six months later, in a full-dress expedition, found a selection of ice-age animals, most of which were probably extinct before the period of Folsom man. It looked as if both human and animal...