Word: glacial
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...those days, just after the last glacial period, he knew, the Mojave was well-watered, forested country. Amateur Archeologist Stahl tramped the desert, traced the course a river once ran, tumbling from the mountains down over a waterfall (now a dry lava cliff). Half a mile below the "falls," Stahl found a little rounded hill which must have been a pleasant spot in late Pleistocene times. "Here," he said, "is where I would camp if I were a Pinto Man." He dug holes in the bone-dry earth. Three feet below the surface he found stone artifacts characteristic of Pinto...
...archeologists would like to know. If Harrington finds bones of animals around the ancient hearths, he will be better able to fix the date of the "Pinto culture." Bones of American camels, or long-horned bison, for instance, would prove that the camp site was inhabited in the late glacial period. If he finds a fair set of human bones, he may establish Pinto Man's relation to other Early Americans, and to the latter-day low-cultured Indians who lived in Southern California before the white man arrived...
...first efforts to correlate relics along France's Ain River with a specific period in world history will take place this summer when Kirke M. Bryan '28, professor of Physiography, and Hallam L. Movius '02, curator of Archaeology, lead an expedition to place these Stone Age people by "glacial chronology...
...this method, especially suitable for the Ain locality, debris and deposits left in the wake of receding ice sheets will be used as rough indeces to periods of time. Glacial deposits in the area and previously found traces of early man indicate that the spot was a choice gathering-place for prehistoric tribes...
Most exciting to archeologists is the great age of the camp sites. The artifacts were imbedded in a layer of "old soil." Above them lay many, feet of wind-deposited material (loess), the result of great dust storms associated with the last (Mankato) glacial advance, 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Apparently man reached Nebraska early enough to feel the effect of ice when it last crept toward his hunting grounds...