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...pinto pony, complete with western saddle and a congratulatory note from Tom Mix, was delivered to David E. Lilienthal, Jr. '49 at the College yesterday...
...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...
After several days of careful work, the diggers uncovered more postholes outlining a 7½ ft. by 12 ft. building. The floor inside was of earth hard packed by Pinto Man's feet, and in the dirt around the house were grinding stones and pestles his womenfolk had used to prepare his food. Since the postholes were vertical and some five inches in diameter, the house could not have been a lean-to like those built by some primitive Indians. It must have been made of substantial materials, with walls and a roof...
Curator Mark Harrington of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, considers the house "the most interesting and exciting Pinto Man discovery to date." He thinks it was built about 8,000 years ago, when the Mojave Desert was a wooded, fertile land, teeming with game. The people who lived in it were obviously no mere nomads, but led a semi-settled life, probably living in tight little clans. No cooking had been done in the house, but near it was the charcoal and burned-bone fragments of a large campfire site, apparently shared by several families...
Pericles or Pinto. He might also find a good answer to an old, half-serious controversy: What will be the long-range effect of Southern California's bland climate upon humans who enjoy...