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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest New World building yet discovered lay in the California sunshine last week. Amateur Archaeologist C. D. McCown was troweling away at the camp site of Pinto Man found eight months ago in the hot Mojave Desert (TIME, May 31). Under the dry surface he came on what looked like a pesthole. The wood of the post had disappeared thousands of years ago, but in its place was sand contrasting with the undisturbed earth around it. Other diggers downed their tools and hurried up excitedly; such filled-in postholes are treasures in archaeology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Jul. 26, 1948 | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...Theodore McCown, of the University of California, who dug up the specimen, brought him to Hugh O. Hencken, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research, whose office is in the Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100,000-Year-Old Man Displayed at Peabody | 8/23/1946 | See Source »

William T. Sanders '50, an Anthropology concentrator, used a vigorous and unprintable metaphor in an interview yesterday to indicate his skepticism at reporter's efforts to interpret the importance of McCown's priceless collection of Neanderthal bones. Sanders characterized one printed report as "a bunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100,000-Year-Old Man Displayed at Peabody | 8/23/1946 | See Source »

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