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Word: tequixquiac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scent last November. He made his first strike in an area that he had not considered promising: a handful of stone artifacts-scrapers, drills and flaked stones-projecting from the eroded wall of a ravine near Teotihuacan, northeast of Mexico City. With this unexpected encouragement, he went to Tequixquiac, a spot known to be rich in fossilized remains of animals. Dr. de Terra hoped this would yield traces of hunters as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stones & Bones | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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