| Show fossils awe acu 0 cu indians panama find expected to push back history PANAMA A smithsonian institution scientist is coming from washington D C to this little jun gle village to examine a find ot of fossil bones that may extend knowledge of central america back a million years the fossils are the first of their kind to be discovered in panama or surrounding countries up to now the he rank growth of the tropical countries has hidden all traces of what the region was like before mankind appeared on the scene while the find has attracted international interest among scientists it has thrown the indians of this out of the way community into a superstitious ious silence they look with awe upon the ribs four feet long and tho the leg bones 15 times larger than human ones that have been uncovered some of the bones have been reasonably well identified as belonging to a a beast which long ago disappeared from the th e worlds world surface it was about nine f feet long and shaped like a rhinoceros other bones seem to be those of a giant ground sloth which grew as much as 20 feet taul some of the bones have been completely turned to agate by their hundreds of thousands of years in the earth they were found about six miles from here in a spot known as ai rincon santo which means in spanish sacred corner possibly because of odd add things that were found there in the forgotten past the spot has bas always been looked upon by the indians with reverence something in the sou soil of the land around the sacred corner comer acts upon burled buried objects to preserve them and turn them to stone the tha actual discovery of the bones was made by joaquin carrizo carrozo zo manager of a local hotel which has a unique facade made of petrified wood perhaps a million years old ile he was hunting for additional wood pieces when he came across the bones some uncovered by ero cro sion lon and some already washed into the th bed of a former strem |
