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...took was a little imagination, and an amateur's interest in archeology. One day last fall Willy Stahl, Los Angeles musician and painter, went into the Mojave Desert 180 miles northeast of Los Angeles and tried to guess where he would have settled, had he been a Pinto Man living 10,000 years...
...tumbling from the mountains down over a waterfall (now a dry lava cliff). Half a mile below the "falls," Stahl found a little rounded hill which must have been a pleasant spot in late Pleistocene times. "Here," he said, "is where I would camp if I were a Pinto Man." He dug holes in the bone-dry earth. Three feet below the surface he found stone artifacts characteristic of Pinto...
...camp ground is the best site found so far for the study of the early Californian, an unimaginative lowbrow if there ever was one. Pinto Man did his hunting with a "throwing stick" which projected stone-tipped spears. He made no pottery, knew no agriculture...
Until Harrington found the thigh bone, almost nothing personal was known about Pinto Man. But careful study of the bone showed that the ancient hunter was short (5 ft. 6 in.) and squat...
...desert camp site is only partly excavated, and still may be hiding a lot of answers archeologists would like to know. If Harrington finds bones of animals around the ancient hearths, he will be better able to fix the date of the "Pinto culture." Bones of American camels, or long-horned bison, for instance, would prove that the camp site was inhabited in the late glacial period. If he finds a fair set of human bones, he may establish Pinto Man's relation to other Early Americans, and to the latter-day low-cultured Indians who lived in Southern...