Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-16 | Page 22 | French Past Revealed by Grotto Hunt

French rench Past Revealed by Grotto Hunt Young Archeologist and Wife Find Evidence of Early Life PARIS UP UP Prehistoric Prehistoric Franco France Francos FrancoIs Is s giving 1 up tip fragment after r fra frag- frag of oC her Jon long lcd hUlled past to the skill and courage of ot a. a young French archeologist c and Ills his wife Down in lii the geological eolo ancient foothills of oC tho Ito l Pyrenees M 1 Norbert Nor- Nor bert bent eit ret Casteret for lor more than 15 15 years cars car Im has been cn exploring caves l grottos and underground round rivers Ills His untiring search for traces of oC an extinct ex- ex civilization cl has ha b by no means means means' been een barren bar o ot of results His most recent success aided b by hI hit his wife was as tho tim discovery elY of ot a l grotto on once onre c the le Homo home of prehistoric men not far aT from rom hi his earll earlier di discoveries co nt at Mon Molt in the department o of haute haute- Garonne The ho grotto to which acce access s Is vcr very cry difficult is 1 1200 OO meters long Jon and nd includes Include man many spacious l corn corn- dors ors According to M. M f. f Casteret th the the- most lost important vestige of oC ancient life fo which he discovered disco Is a primitiv primi- primi ve staircase While working hi his wa way Into tho the remotest orners corners of the tho io cavern Ito he- encountered a l wall or of f eta clay which seemed to render fur fur- progress Impossible 1 lion ion showed that deep holes boles hail had been cut into tho the barrier affording land hand and anil foot holds somewhat on the he principle of or a a. modern stall stairway I and nd making making- it ea's easy to pa pass s to theother tho the other ther side He al also o found numerous bronze and nd iron instruments carved cIr ant int nt- nt ers of or deer and pottery made from the lie clay which comprised most of or ortho the tho iio walls of or tho grotto Many Ian skeletons were found in one ot f the galleries which had evI- evI b been en u used ed as ns tho tim re regular ular burIal jurial chamber of oC the cave cae lers nude flude mounds of or C clay ly had been hastily piled up over r the tho corpses as ac I Is shown b by tho the Impressions Im- Im stilt still left in fn the mounds Scholars are awaiting Interest Inter- Inter est esl st tho tito detailed description of oC his findings s which M. M Ca Is Js ex- ex pc to publish This Tills latest discovery dis- dis covery conn of or tho the young scholar is considered Im- Im c equally lually as as M his tits now nosy famous exploration ion tion on and discoveries erles in tho tim underground underground under under- ground river caverns of oC Montespan stripped to bathing trunks candle candlen in n hand and a l small package of or matches latches In his mouth M. M Casteret cd Into tho stream at al the point where here it dropped es Into subterranean recesses Corning Coming again to tho the surface sur- sur face ace under tho the rim of oC the cave e he lie found himself h by the aid ot or matches and anil candle In Ina lna a series Ic of ot vast clay clay- walled wailed caverns Ills subsequent dis- dis ics crIes which marJo mario him hint famous r iO similar to those ot of his lila latest tAM