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Last week at Manhattan's famed American Museum of Natural History. Alfred and two friends-Joseph Geiler, 16. and Michael Bandrowski, 16-exhibited the fossil of a winged reptile, oldest airborne vertebrate known to man. Siefker's protorosaur, said Dr. Edwin H. Colbert, head of the museum's department of vertebrate paleontology, "proves that vertebrates attempted flight some 10 million years earlier than anyone suspected...
...veteran Olduvai Fossil-Hunter Louis S. B. Leakey. 57. reports that he and his family last year discovered what he calls, using a phrase familiar among anthropologists, "earliest man." Leakey's earliest man is described as more than 600,000 years old. or some 100,000 years older than the Peking man or Java man. Says Leakey, a broad, rumpled, sometime Cambridge don: "My 19-year-old son Jonathan wandered across a slope during a pause in our other work at Olduvai and picked up a small fragment of animal jaw. 'You've got a saber-toothed...
...were stone chisels and sickles, made of polished deer antlers and fitted with hard flint blades. The tools of war were sling-stones and maces with heads of blue-veined marble. Hacilar's women had their own sort of weapons: Mellaart found obsidian pendants and bracelets made of fossil shells, as well as lumps of red ocher that were presumably ground into a kind of rouge...
...large (6 ft. 1 in. by 8 ft. 1 in.) Fossil Hunters was painted from life; he used models for the three figures, as well as yards of billowing draperies. But what interests Dickinson is never pure representation. It is impossible to tell just what the figures are doing; because of the wonders Dickinson performs with perspective, the figures seem to be lying down, standing, and floating under water all at once. The sea-green light, which seems to come from nowhere, falls not on the figures but on the folds of cloth, on a hand, on a death mask...
They could not have imagined in what spirit their work would be commemorated in 1960, for to modern man Chartres Cathedral is a precious and perfect fossil of a pre-secular time when faith and the church held together the whole structure of society...