Word: mastodon
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Miss Cynthia Irwin, a Harvard graduate student, discovered the remains of a mastodon, an extinct elephant-like animal, together with scrapers and other human tools dating back some 30,000 years. Excited by the discovery, a number of U.S. archaeologists and paleontologists have left for El Horno - a site about ten miles from Puebla, Mexico - to examine the findings...
Although hundreds of mastodon skeletons have been found in the New World, from Alaska to South America, they have previously never been definitely associated with human tools. Mastodons flourished in forests on the two American continents from about one-half million to 10,000 years...
...modern elephant, while belonging to the same animal family as the mastodon, more closely resembles the larger mammoth, another long-nosed species scientists have known for some time that early man hunted the mammoth; but similar evidence for the mastodon was lacking until the joint Peabody Museum and University of Puebla expedition made its discovery...
...many art buffs recall Charles Willson Peale's oil painting, Exhuming the F irst American Mastodon (1806-08), nor do many readers know Royall Tyler's novel. The Algerine Captive: or, The Life and Adventures of Dr. Updike Underhill (1797). Much American music of that period is equally obscure, but equally evocative in its titles and equally appealing to the imagination if given half a chance. Manhattan's Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage is providing that chance in a series of 20 recordings, giving voice to some 25 little-known U.S. composers...
...Thunder on, mastodon--pay the rent...