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Show I I CANADA TRACED Aborigines Were Using Rocky Tools Up Until One Century Ago VICTORIA. B- C. May 3 The atone lain which, iclentlst sa: cama U avi Una in Western Buropc about 700 B. C was carried on for more than 8000 yeAri lator and in us most ehajracter-ffl ehajracter-ffl form existed in British Columbia Colum-bia up until as late aa a century ago In som districts, according to tlnd-of tlnd-of archaeologists who have been exploring aome of the old community sites, mounds and aboriginal Braves 'lon? the co8t nd lh' inU'rior of ' province. . . . Tho stone ae In British olumbia has for rnanv years hen the stud of sclontits of note who have been working tho field in an effort to bulla ub the story of the .-volution ol the MMhlstorlc civilisation a exr-mplifi'-d m the tiibes who worked out their i lstence between the Rooky mountains and the Pacific. Valuable collection have been obtained It was only recently, however, that British Columbia. In an effective w y. turned its attention to the pfl. ' "dtr, the direction of Premier John Olivet, the provincial museum has I n par-j tially rebuilt and the collections put on exhibition. MiT TRACES FOUND. The aboriginal occupants of tho country belonged to the. neolithic or new stone age. scientists determined f.om the specimens obtained from old , V,1 I villages and burylnir places Sto i XJ and bone tools were in comm .. L when the f:rst white explorers visited the north Pacific. althouRh Iron and coppor in small quantities were found almost everywhere. 1 " in some instances the native race had developed n degree of art. One? j! V1 of the feature exhibits In the museum I ' is a copv of a seated human figure holding- bowl It w.is chipped from a solid block of stone and then polished. pol-ished. There are two of these specimens speci-mens very much alike, one was di--J cohered near Departure bay, Nanaimo, ami the other m North Saanb h, on Vancouver Island. Perhaps tho most characteristic ol the stone ace are the n hammers discovered in many places. They aro almost Identical with the tools of the neolithic man found in Kurope. The stone weapons include daggt and war clubs. There are many ex- ample of stone dishes, hewn from small boulders. With what appear to have been rolling pins of a somewhat angular design the prehistoric woman of this coast seems to have been well supplied. Primitive man In British Columbia 1 1 larentlj did 0 little smoking now and then. U'.d Bholl mound.-, on the Thompson and l'raser rivers have yielded what appear to have been found the native racW using a true tobacco, nicotine attenuata. which grows wild In the Thompson river country and was smoked ::lone or mixed with grease and kinniklnick. rtn |