Word: glaciality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Nebraska put in a claim last week to having the oldest inhabitants of the U.S. Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz, of the University of Nebraska, told of finding ancient camp sites which may have been human hangouts before the last glacial advance...
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...
...skiers. Cost per person: $9 a day with meals. (Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 a day without meals.) Argentines and Americans, as well as Chileans, took the sun on Portillo's terraces, drank pisco sours†and watched the condors circle high above the glacial Lake of the Incas. Almost everybody turned in at 10 so as to be bright and early for the morning's fresh snow and perhaps a lesson from French ex-World Ski Champion Emile Allais...