Show f ABOUT THE I 1 31 IN V i chipped arrowheads and evidences of man were found in digging asso t elated with bones of prehistoric ant an mals near folsom new mexico to this find they gave the name the folsom man it would be of 0 a long time ago and Is remarkable in that man fought with the elephant threw his stone tipped spears at it and finally overcame it here is ad dit lonal ional news about that find an early barbecue scene has been unearthed by dr frank 11 H rob erts of new mexico who has been digging for the smithsonian Smiths onlan tion near port fort collins and found a i jumbled mass of bones flung aside and charcoal and ashes of a great tire fire where the prehistoric bison and other bigl big game had been roasted science call the earliest man on the continent so far dincov ered the folsom man he did not merely camp at this site found by dr roberts they lived there worked there turning out hunting spears knives stone chipped choppers ana other stone implements and left debris of stone scraps and discards on the grorud dr roberts unearth ed hundreds of stone tools and wea pons from the layer of ground in which they had been left by these very early men the bones of the bison are the remais of the large prehistoric species not the recent smaller animal found during the pe of civilization the folsom man was versatile skillful in shaping the implements he used and was not as crude as expected for that ancient time for cutting tools they knock ed off flakes and shaped those the work shows a good mastery of the art of fashioning by flaking dr roberts has found a number of yuma points longer than the fol som man mans s most typical weapon in a layer of earth 17 inches above the remains of folsom man mans s existence so tar far as this site is cone conc arned says dr roberts yuma points were made later than the folsom type of weapon |