Word: nickajack
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Dates: during 1894-1894
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...proof, however, that man and the mammoth were here contemporaneous, because in many places remains of the Indians are found mingled with the traces of an earlier age. In these instances, investigation has shown that the confusion was caused in subsequent years. But discoveries in the Look-out and Nickajack caves near Knoxville, Tenn., furnish indisputable evidence that man lived there at the same time with the animals whose bones were found, such as deer, tortoise, elk, rabbit and many others. It is probable that the human beings who lived there had killed those animals for food, since the bones...
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