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Show Burned Their Dead tests revealed it to be bone ash. Another liud deemed Important wa. a coppei bell, use of which prevlouslj had not been known. A bracelet of lit shells was found on Hie arm of the skeleton of a fen:ule. There were fireplaces und wall base of adobe and stone. Some I ills were constructed of wood. The culture, according to anthro pologlsts. disappeared when Mimhres villages were destroyed, although how they were destroyed hns not been learned. So f:ir as Is known the cul fure never took root elsewhere. Minneapolis, Minn. Evidence that prehistoric dwellers on the North American continent were the first ot mankind to cremate the dead has been unearthed by an expedition of tie .Minneapolis Institute of Arts The evidence Is based chiefly upon a crumbly material found In Hie sands of the Mlmhres valley In New Mexico, thought to have been pulverised corn, which an analysis showed was hone ash. The culture of the Mimhres vallej Is believed to have flourished 2.00(1 years ago. Objects and materials found cer talnly are the first evidence of crcma tlon In that valley, nnd possibly any where, says Dr.. Albert K. Jeuks, lead er of the expedition. Doctor Jenks believes Mimhres culture ceased to exist about Goo or 700 A. D. Near Hurley. N. M., the searcher unearthed a village of 1.V1 rooms, ot huts. Some yielded sitting, or full length skeletons wllh howls over theli heads. But In one was found a Jar of an unrecognized material. "We tasted It," said Doctor Jenks "fine member of the party declared the material was pulverized blue coin common In that vicinity." Laboratory |