Show FLINT 1 IDS BONES FOUND prehistoric elephants hunted to death by cunning primitive darts have been unearthed in new mexico apparently proving to some dentists that america was inhabited as long long ago a 8 B C the discovery which places amer ka ica s famous folsom man more det def finitely than ever before in a niche of time vaa made by a joint archeo log leal expedition directed by the acad emy of natural sciences of philadel phia the carnegie institution of washington mashington and the university mu eum eura of philadelphia the site of the discovery in the region of black water draw between portales and clovis dr edgar B howard of the academy leader of the exposition reported finding at the site bones of 0 ponderous mammoths with stone spear points made by men associated beyond doubt with them one of the ancient hunters weapons lay under a vertebra another under a shoulder blade and another between the tore fore limbs of 0 a beast the prehistoric elephants thus slain were obviously trapped in a bog where they floundered until the big game gain hunters could dispatch them with their pointed spears the first bone points tor for tips of 0 spears were found here in conecpion with prehistoric elephants or with amer leas lea s ancient folsom men one of these bone points rested on the base of a mammoth mammoths s tusk the anti antiquity quit y of the event about 10 bears eara ago Is estimated on geologic and climatological evidences the remains of the hunt with the lost and discarded weapons were buried through the centuries by hard silt and several feet of sand and re bained undisturbed scientists of note who witnessed the excavation included dr ernst antevs geologist of the carnegie institution dr har old colton of the museum of north ern arizona and dr frederica de do laguna archeologist of the sity museum from el palacio santa fe |