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Show he Oldest Shoe Factory" js Tag on Utah Cave .-..j the ancient Indians ;'c-ir Hunters settled in ir Cave in Western I'tha. Liver upon layer 'f piles and charcoal which archaeologists '"in at1' t0 accurately -:re are up to 11.000 Because of these re-s re-s C W. Ceram. author "i' rew book. "The First -car.: A Story of North ".-3 Archaeology.'' calls Cave "a treasure ;." He explains why the i r35 nsrr.ed Danger Cave & "a huge boulder sud--7 ante hurtling down ie roof, nearly killing : excavators." ;:n R.vk Cave. Utah, has Ken occupied for many :-?.: of years, and Cer-::;:ctis Cer-::;:ctis that when arehae-u-3 L S. Cressman found :)i 9.000 year old san- iii.vea of shredded sage-r- hark, he nicknamed f :re "the oldest shoe f ac-r ac-r i tie world." Cressman c .-3se D. Jennings of il-.e v-ziy of Utah found eon-ls eon-ls strata in Fort Roc!-: r: atefeg from very a: ::ir.es to 1400 B.C. "p. ropes, nets, and bas-craie bas-craie of plant fibers. 7;; First American'', just :-td by Harcourt Brace Tsvich. reveals the as-'Z as-'Z richness of the North :?2n Plains Indians' cid- legacy. In order to "! his comprehensive story Jet 17.500 year history, e: the archaeologists who -Ad it, Ceram, author 2 international bestseller, Graves, and Schoi-:" Schoi-:" traveled 32.000 miles -Kd 2.000 publications. '-8 First American,' in '-'P? to light some of the al civilizations which tcjished on this contin-1 contin-1 could do for North Am- crca wliat 'Gods, Graves and Scholars' did for the Middle Fast." says John Rarkham in t!ie Saturday Review Syndicate. Syn-dicate. "Gods, Graves and Scholars", which has become a classic since its publication 20 years ago. has been translated into 2o languages and sold well over ov-er 4.000.000 copies in hard cover editions. Archaeological students in both American and European universities say that their interest in the subject sub-ject first began when they read this book. Throughout "The First American", Am-erican", Ceram's admiration for the Southwest is evident. He calls it "'a region that many people regard as the most beautiful in North America, Am-erica, if not the world. This Southwest, which proved to be no Dorado for the gold-seeking Spaniards, actually became be-came ihe Dorado of the archaeologists. arch-aeologists. They found traces of the oldest Americans ar-cund ar-cund whose caves the mam-mouth, mam-mouth, the camel, the ground sloth, and the extinct buffaloes buffa-loes and horses of the last Ice Age still slunk." ''The First American" contains con-tains 43 photographs in color and in black and white, and 60 drawings by Hannelore Marek, and a comprehensive index. |