Show I OL AND MRS JUns LINDBERGH AID ARCHEOLOGISTS In the endeavor endeavor to to develop new opportunities for tor the employment o otho of oC f tho the airplane Colonel and anel Mrs Lindbergh Lind- Lind Lind-I Lind beigh bergh recently turned for a time to archeological res research arch So far tar the they y have made two expeditions one Inthe inthe In Inthe the region of the Pueblos and theother theother the theother other region over Yucatan The expeditions yielded a n splendid series of photographs will wUl beof be beof I of much aid to archeologists I rho The first trip was over the Pueblo region In August of this year which so pleased Dr A. A V. V Kidder that a I second one was planned To make mako- e the second trip Col Cot Lindbergh had I Ito to light in so small an opening in the I cedars that when he ho was to take off I again the plane must be just as light as possible or It could not clear the I I trees rees So daily he would go to the camp with his hiff gas tanks almost empi empty emp emp- empty i ty an and next mo ning fly rIy over to th the e I transcontinental field at Albuquerque I que load up and go along to come comei I home in the evening lightened of ot his in g load of gas More than one hundred excellent I graphs I.-graphs were secured on these trips and ind nd some of cliff dwellings not before beCore up so high as to b be e hid from Cram to parties on the floor floor of at o f the valleys valles Civilization Civili Based on Cereals The airplane enables one to cover in a few hours territory which would require months to explore on horse horse- b back ack Topographical features show up better from Cram the air too The relation relation re re- lation lotion that existed in ancient times b between water supply and available lands for farming is easily distinguished distinguished distin distin- g from the air taken air taken in at a glance The of the southwest was practical based on corn Utah Coloreds Arizona and New Mexico and ind on Into Old Mexico CORN CORN CORNI I I r r. more properly maize malz was the important all item Without It they could not live Egypt wheat China China Chi Chi- na rice our own southwest corn Thus are civilizations ns dependent upon upon upon up- up up up- on Even some of the nomads nomads no no- mads marls raised corn even even the dreads dreaded dread dread- e ed Apache had I some tho the limited and he found it easier to raid and kill and th then n steal what cereals he be wanted than to grow them But Dut even even even ev ev- en at that sometimes in a limited way he grew corn and melons The I Navaho much more And the peaceful peace peace- ful tul Pueblos very extensively In lu fact from centuries of at cultivation they had developed a high plane In Inthe I Ithe the growing of corn I Just when and where corn was first brought into cultivation is not known but but buta a wild heavy grass inthe In Inthe Inthe the pampas of at So Am America is to be the ancestor of at our present corn The developed for Cor a long time then spread rapidly In the Maya region It burst forth brilliantly In our won southwest It developed more slowly Int into J the civilization civilization i which the Spaniard found I there in 1540 itself the successor of or l I the fromer Cromer inhabitants the cliff clift dwellers who were preceded by a I ruder people called the basket mak mak- ers era Colonel Lindbergh's photos Indicate Indi Indi- indicate cate tate that there are ate many areas ye yet t in our southwest which it t may pay to intensively investigate I was sent a series of photos by the Carnegie Institution which Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh took one showIng showing show show- showing ing a typical mesa as seen from tram the theair theair theair air a flat table land with canyons washed from tram all angles of it another I er of a ruin in Chaco Canyon Mummy Mummy Mum Mum- I I II my Cave seen from above and also I a view from below and a fine tine photo of oC Canyon de Chelly showing some cliff houses tucked In a ledge which h had d not been seen by the whites as they are hid from Cram view from a position POSItion post post- I tion ion below I It is thought th that t the story of at those dwellings carry one back to a f time before beCore the lie Christian Era They were rich in cultural material which I will vill bo be Intensively studied j Next week we will give a similar digest of at Colonel Lindbergh's flight I over Yucatan Frank Sr I |