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...thrown into a Glacial Period lake -have been dated as having lived 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. But even this modest antiquity has been denied by the Smithsonian Institution's doughty Ales Hrdlicka. Until recently the earliest known American "culture" was that of mysterious Folsom Man, whose first tools and campsites were encountered near Folsom, N. Mex. No remains of the man himself were found...
Geological evidence indicates that a Folsom campsite in Colorado may be as much as 25,000 years old. After Folsom Man there is a long gap to the remains of Siberian immigrants, perhaps 4,000 or 5,000 years old, found by Hrdlicka in Alaska. Then come the "Basket-Makers" who lived in the southwestern U. S. about 15 centuries B. C. and who preceded the Indians whom white invaders found...
Last week scientists attending a regional meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Tucson, Ariz, heard of a new addition to U. S. anthropology-Sandia Man, whose culture is even older than Folsom. Evidence for Sandia Man's greater antiquity is simple and clear: his culture level was found underneath a typical Folsom culture. Since the maximum age given for Folsom Man is 25,000 years, Sandia Man may be 30,000 years...
...Under this chandelier, then in the White House, Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom were married...
...Smithsonian Institute, and is considered "the most important find in recent years." If has yielded over 2,000 ancient stone implements, many of which were found imbedded in the vertebrae of extinct mensters. Around these and similar relies found elsewhere, a whole civilization of so-called "Folsom men" developed...