Show I UINTAH BASIN OFFERS STUDY FOR FOJ SCIENTISTS I Utah is recognized as one of the richest areas on the American American Ameri Ameri- can continent for the study of primitive man according to Dr Julian H H. Steward Sieward University of Utah In the region near Vernal have been een discovered or pictures engraved engrave on stone which rival those of the ancient Aztecs in in master craftsmanship One rare specimen in the Vernal re region region region re- re gion is of an ancient pueblo Indians Indian's Indians Indian's Indians Indian's In In- dian's g god 4 an and is unique in that it is engraved in relief bas-relief that thatis is the picture stands out and the background is chipped away Dr Steward sets the time of this ancient Utah culture as existing existing existing ex ex- ex- ex about one thousand to fifteen fifteen fifteen teen hundred years ago He states that these people grew corn at this early date and that they fashioned fashioned fashIoned fash fash- clay or images asan asan as asan an appeal to the gods to make the soil fertile What is probably the earliest domestic dog yet discovered in America was found by Dr Steward Steward Stew Stew- ard and in a burial cave north of the Great Salt Lal Lake e. e Some notable discoveries of pe pe- I have been made in the canyons and hills near Beaver Fillmore Price Magna Moab and Wayne county One interesting feature which Dr Steward points out In regard to the is that the ancient engravers subjects subjects subjects sub sub- such as sheep deer men concentric circles and other figures figures figures fig fig- ures are greatly similar to those found many hundreds of miles mUes to indicate a wide spread from Utah a feature which seems tion as early as two thousand years ago |