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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uncovered in the summer of 1953, the site has been dated in the Upper Paleolithic era, going back 18,000 to 25,000 years. Preliminary excavations, Professor Movius reported, unearthed a very large series of flint pieces and, more important, "better preserved and more complete mammalian material than as been recovered in recent years...
Complete study of the site should enable a team of workers to determine what climatic changes occurred that eliminated the horse from the diet. The same study will afford an opportunity to investigate changes in the living habits of the bands of hunters who occupied the area at various times, since preliminary examinations show a long record of successive occupations...
Movius pinpointed the site as a farm in the French village of Les Eyzles in "the prehistoric capital of Western Europe...
...Edgemon had bought the stones at a bargain after Hearst's death in 1951, and packed them off to Florida. In the summer of 1952, a small army of architects, masons and other workmen started the laborious job of unpacking and reassembling the stones on a 20-acre site just outside Miami. They worked from charts prepared by Hearst's dismantlers in Sacramenia; each stone bore a number corresponding to a position on the charts. The master mason who supervised the job called it "the greatest jigsaw puzzle in history...
...Sears, Roebuck bought a site in Lima for its first retail store in Peru, its 25th in Latin America. Sears stores are already doing well ($75 million gross last year) in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia...