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Show No Housing Shortage in Days of Cave Men New Haven, Conn. There was no housing shortage in the United States in prehistoric prehis-toric times when men were cave men, and went cave hunting. Many a fine cave was vacant century after century. cen-tury. In Europe practically all caves and shelters have yielded evidence of occupancy by ancient man, says Dr. George Grant MacCurdy of Yale university, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research. Re-search. Caves in the United States, including some of the biggest and most beautiful caverns in the world, are, from the viewpoint of importance impor-tance in study of the cave man, not comparable with Old world caves. Dr. MacCurdy believes there is evidence indicating that man may have come to America some 40,000 years ago, but that it would have been far easier for man to have reached this country ten or fifteen thousand years ago, so far as the route across Bering Strait is concerned. con-cerned. The oldest known prehistoric Inhabitants In-habitants of this country, called Fol-som Fol-som and Yuma men after their characteristic weapons of stone, were older than the Basket Makers of the southwest, who in turn were older than the Pueblo Indians in that part of the country. The Fol-som Fol-som and the Yuma weapon makers were widely scattered, judging by their chipped spearpoints which have been found in various states. |