Show Alaska Flowers Reveal I Prehistoric Villages Washington Flowers Flowers that bloom bloomin in Alaska can help explorers detect de do tact prehistoric American villages hidden underground Importance of this botanic clue in re discovering the past is stressed by Dr Ales Ale Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Smithsonian Smith Smith- Institution in a report to Sc- Sc ence once once-At At the village trash heaps and ruins the earth is mixed with animal animal ani ani- ani mal bones shells ashes rotted wood and organic refuse and In Inthis Inthis Inthis this distinctly different soil soU spring up plants different from those dominant dom in the neighborhood At Aga Ago tu at the western end of the Aleutian Aleutian Aleutian Aleu Aleu- tian island chain Dr Hrdlicka found village sites covered with high stout grass on the slopes and anda a thicket of wild parsnip monkshood monks monks- hood and other flowering plants over the top In locating hundreds of these sites for archeological exploration Dr Hrdlicka learned to detect an old village site by its plant covering as far away as he could see it clearly |