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Show THURSDAY, OCT. 1976 28, Signs Of Earliest Americans Aim Of Huge Alaskan Manhunt By Robert C. Radcliffe National Geographic News valley, according to two University of Alaska scien- stantially supported by the National Geographic. They tuve just finished a summer excavation and have been pledged $600,000 by the National Geographic Society and the DR. GUTHRIE, a zooloR. gist, and Dr. William an anthropologist, Powers, will return to Dry Creek next June when the sun is warm enough to soften the permafrost. They will expand the excavations and widen their search for future digs over an area that may eventually tists. Who were the first people to enter the New World? When did they arrive? How did they live? What did they hunt? What did they use for three-mont- h tools and weapons? A bonanza of answers may lie frozen with the permafrost of a central Alaskan National Park Service to continue their promising work. "Dry Creek," says Dr. Russell D. Guthrie of the dig site, "may well turn out to be the Olduvai Gorge of Alaska." Olduvai Gorge in East Africa has provided a rich lode of bones of prehistoric man, found largely by the Leakey family in work sub- - 02) G3ROC2HD thousand cover several square miles. The money, being provided over three years in equal shares by the two sponsoring organizations, makes the Dry Creek projects one of the en- deavors ever undertaken in the United States, emphasizing the increasing importance given to the search for signs of early man. The two American scientists are comparing notes bones and artiand dug-u- p facts with other early man ALL FARMERS anthropologists, including The National Farmers Organization (NF0) will be conducting a meeting for all persons interested in the future of agriculture on Friday, October 29th at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Preston fairgrounds in the Robinson building. Everyone in the entire area is encouraged to attend. Choose a Career Russians working in Siberia and Canadians in the Yukon Territory. MOST ANTHROPOLOGISTS say that early man wandered from Siberia to Alaska over a wide land bridge-actua- lly the floor of the shallow Bering Strait, exposed as sea levels dropp-pe- d and the world's water supply was frozen into the Ice Age glaciers of the time. The last time these glaciers melted and drowned in the Bering land Evening Classes t Starting October 26, 1976 4 p.m. to 1 1 p.m. Learn from skilled machinists Largest assortment of machines in Idaho Graduation certificate on completion Job placement assistance Idaho Countless generations passed, scientists theorize, as these people gradually moved across Alaska, through a natural corridor between the huge glaciers that covered Canada, to the e country that is now the United States, and eventually into South America by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Over the last 50 years, signs of early man have been found in at least eight other places in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. But the Large US Diamond Layed Around The House largest diamond found the eastern United States, the 3412-car"Punch Jones," was found by Grover and William Jones while pitching horseshoes in their iront yard in Peterstown. West Virginia. Picked up in April 1928, the rough gem was kept around the house for 15 years before anyone realized it was actually a diamond. The in Has there. However, mey ieei that future may well turn up bones of early man, who belonged to the family of modern man. Homo sapiens. Part of a lower jawbone has been found along another early man migration route near the Old Crow River in Yukon Territory. Dr. William N. Irving of the University of Toronto, in charge of the dig, estimates the jaw's age at "more than 20,000 years." but points out its origin is unknown because the river washed it ashore. Early man remains and artifacts that some say are still older have been found m the United States and Latin America, but their dating is not universally accepted. pected to prove the most rewarding of all, for two reasons. FIRST THE region has not been bulldozed by the Ice Age glaciers for the last 70,000 years and possibly longer ago, leaving the area undisturbed since early man there. Second, parts lived of the area have been heavily covered with windborne loam geologists call loess. Through the thousands of years, this has buried the clues of early man just as he left them : charred remains of campfires as they burned out, bone and stone tools and weapons left where they were dropped or lost, and discarded bones of slaughtered animals. The first summer's excavations reached the bottom of about seven feet of loess layers, and artifacts uncovered have been dated, indicating that the people who used them lived there about 11,000 years ago. 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The number of storks has steadily declined to about The Kirby Company of Logan 13,000. 29 South Main St - 753-055- 0 Logan ANTHROPOLOGISTS think these early imigrants to the New World were probably skilled hunters who" wandered in pursuit of wild bison, mammoth, musk ox, caribou, and other animals. Salt Measures Society Level In medieval England the salt cellar was a social boundary at the dinner table. guests sat g it. SPECIAL PURCHASE! TERRIFIC NEW LOOKS IN CALIFORNIA STYLED FASHION COATS IN SIZES FOR JUNIOR AND MISSES King Canute's laws provided that a social climber could be "pelted out of his place by bones at the discretion of the company." State University Pocatello,' Idaho 83209 Phone: (208) 236-26- it above the ornate silver container closer to the head of the table, lesser guests below Education crossing between continents. The land bridge was 50 miles long but 1,500 miles wide. jointly sponsored excavations at Dry Creek and the surrounding .valley are ex- Strait. 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