Show TT TRACES CULTURE O OF MOUND BUILDER Tex Texas s Caves Yield Important Discoveries Washington Caves Caves Caves' of eastern Texas Inhabited b by an ancient people pe-ople may help science to explain how the mysterious mound builder culture found its way to the Mississippi l valley where It flourished In prehistoric times Matthew W. W Stirling chief of the bureau of American ethnology has just returned from exploring this western region which Is still practically practically practically untouched by archeologists He reported finding caves bearing traces of human occupation and apparently ap ap- ap- ap well worth Investigating by Smithsonian institution expeditions The Indians who built fires tires In the cn cave ve shelters and left their broken tools and dinner bones there to be buried In dust and debris were probably probably probably ably similar to the basket makers of the early Southwest Mr Stirling's trial digging revealed Greatest Interest in these caves hinges on the fact that they are along the route where the mound builder culture presumably advanced ad if It it spread overland o from Mexico to the Mississippi valley alley Here may be preserved preserved pre pro served some evidence of ot those ancient an an- dent happenings One question to be answered Mr Stirling explained Is whether t there ere was an actu actual l migration of ot Aztec or orsome orsome orsome some other tribe from the he south or or whether the Mexican Indians merely passed along by trade contacts their ideas of building high places and art designs and other knowledge and customs cus cus- toms that they shared with the MississIppi Mississippi Mississippi sippi valley moun mound builders I |