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Show ARCHEOLOGISTS SEEK REfllJS OF ABORIGINES ! Asnr.i.m. tuPi. t,' (Rr A. P ) Kcavatloas of Intareet and Importance ta th world are being made at tha Hawlkuh prehistoric village alia, about fifty mllea from "ellMP. N. U . by mem here of the H.e foundation museum of tha American Indian of New York, according ac-cording to Captain Thomaa A. Jhyca. arrheologiet and vice presi. 'Cent of tha royal anthropological Institute of Or eat Britain and Ire. land, whs made Los Angeles hla hesdqusrters preparatory la vlelt-Ing vlelt-Ing eiravailan work at Hants Barbara Bar-bara and Hanla Calailna laland. I California. Csptsln Joyra paased considerable lime at tha New Mas-lea Mas-lea excavatlone. "Tha chief present Interest of ths founder and director of the mu-eum. mu-eum. Oeorg, Heye." ,ald Csplsln Joyce, "is the Hendricks-Itodge expedition ex-pedition which hss msde number of Important discoveries at llswl-kuh. llswl-kuh. other arrheologlats sra con-ducting con-ducting eicavatlona at Kerhlpauan, few miles from tlawlkuh. "It Is one of the richest erchee-loglcal erchee-loglcal flelda on the Amertcan continent." con-tinent." aald Captain Joyce. "Tha work now going on there, tha re-aulta re-aulta of which never before havs been published, -sill nndonhtedly throw a new Itgttt on oar Information Informa-tion relative to the people who Inhabited In-habited America prior to It, discovery dis-covery by Columbue. "Although the work of excavating excavat-ing tha prehlstorlo ruins haa Juat atartsd. ws have estshllshed without with-out doubt that both llswlkuh and : Kechlpaiian nra two of tha seven settlements known aa Tha Raven Cltlea of Cibola,' seen by Vaaques da Coronada. "freaence of Iron on aom of the top layers of the excavation algnl-fles algnl-fles that tha vlllagea were ancient before the Hpanlah oonqueet. Other conrluslvs proof found Is the grsd-ual grsd-ual dsvslopment of pottery uncov ered. Jn the lower levele the pottery pot-tery la plain and It ' graduates into' soms very excellsnt examplea as higher levels are reached. The excavatlone reveal that a succession of tribes Inhabited thla region In prehlstorlo days. They also ahow tha gradual development of the human belnga who lived there from the age of the crude atona Implemeota up to tha more advanced periods Evidence aiao haa been found tending to show i thst sometimes a ronsldersbls period pe-riod elapsed between tha passing of on tribe and tb coming of the next. "Artlclea' unearthed bear a atrlk-Ing atrlk-Ing ressmhlsncs to ths primitive utensils and other objects still In use by the Zttnl Indlena. on whose reservation Hawlkuh and Kechlpaiian Kechl-paiian are situated. "On tha top layer, w, uncovered evidence of tha native association with whit men. Theea whites evidently evi-dently erected a church and a monastery-Captain Jove waa accompanied en a visit to the workings near Onllup by Mr. Heye and U O. C Clarke, curator of tha museum of ethnology of Cambridge. Kngland. The party la making a tour of the Bouthwsst Inspecting musauma and placan wher excavations ara in prorreaa. The excavation, kelnr carried on at banta Barbara. Bant Catalina laland and other parta of California Califor-nia ar yielding a vast amount of data relative to th American aborlglnea, according to Mr. Heye. who aaya California la proving a rlcb field for the archeologtet. |