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Show First Americans' Bivouac Found Spearhead Proves Clue To Indians' Ancestors An early bivouac of ancient man on the trail from the Alaskan coast to the interior of the North American Ameri-can continent was discovered last summer by a United States geological geologi-cal survey worker. A considerable collection of artifacts dating from the end of the latest ice age has been turned over to the Smithsonian Institution's bureau of American ethnology by the discoverer, Robert J. Hackman. The find is considered one of the most significant yet made in North American archeology. The artifacts among which is a fragment of a Folsom point, a type of spearhead which is the earliest known human remain on this continentwere con-tinentwere found by Mr. Hack-man Hack-man near the northern entrance of Anaktuvuk Pass through the Brooks Range, which runs essentially parallel paral-lel to the Arctic coast. They were found under about 10 inches of soil in a moraine left by a retreating retreat-ing glacier at the edge of a lake. All these chipped-stone fragments are quite similar in design to the so-called Cape Denbigh flint culture discovered about two years ago by Dr. J. L. Giddings, of the University Univer-sity of Pennsylvania. These were found buried seven feet deep on Cape Denbigh at the head of Norton Sound and may be considered the first human artifacts in the New World. It now is generally admitted that the first Americans, ancestors of the Indians, came from Siberia. |