Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to the U.S. bearing an archeological treasure. It was the skull of an eight-year-old boy whom Father J. Franklin Ewing, SJ. has posthumously named (60,000 years after death) Egbert. Most of the little cave boy's bones are still imbedded in a block of stone, but the skull is exposed. It has, thinks Father Ewing, "a very pleasant smile...
Digging down through the debris before finding Egbert was like journeying into the past with a time machine. The cave was a very desirable parcel of Stone Age real estate. Family after family had lived and worked in its shelter, gradually raising the floor level with dirt and refuse. In the upper layers tools and weapons were comparatively sophisticated. Grinding stones showed that Neolithic exquisites had used pigments for painting or cosmetics. Lower down, artifacts were cruder...
Father Was Human. Some 37 feet down, Father Ewing found Egbert. His little body must have been buried right at home by affectionate elders and gradually covered with material which lime-charged seepage turned to hard stone. He is an Aurignacian boy, genuinely human but following closely in period the semi-human Neanderthals. In fact, he may be a link between the two types. Perhaps his Aurignacian father captured a lowbrowed Neanderthal girl, kept her as a slave, and had a child...
...foothill country of the French Alps, where Author Stein and Companion Alice B. Toklas used to spend their summers. Many characters wander into the book and as casually wander out, never to be heard from again. Did the victim fall from a window on to the stone courtyard-or was she pushed? Perhaps "the horticulturist" knows. He sounds like a possible clue: "And now to tell and to tell very well very very well how the horticulturist family lived to tell everything, and they live in spite of everything, they live to tell everything...
...tourist attraction, the world's greatest manufacturing city and the world's greatest marketplace. Between the Battery and the Harlem River it is possible to buy anything from a ton of powdered whey to an ounce of marijuana; both bees and locomotives are on sale within a stone's throw of City Hall...