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Word: infernillo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dust Chronicle. Tipped off by Don Ignacio Guerra, a local rancher and amateur archeologist, he struggled up the remote Infernillo (Little Hell) Canyon and at last reached two caves in its vertical sides. The floor of the first was covered with four feet of dustlike material that he recognized at once as archeological pay dirt. It was chiefly the dried-up remains of millenniums of human occupancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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