| Show AX DEALS BLOW TO OUR 44 CHRIS columbus hard hit by its discovery ethnologists have always believed th that a t columbus was only about ye years ars behind the first man to reach the atlantic seaboard that though the population of the american continent started so soon after the last lee ice age when tribes from the other side of the world crossed bering strait and filtered slowly southward to inhabit a continent the first roaming citizens of the atlantic seaboard arrived fro from m the west only a short lead ahead of the man who has credit for finding the new world but discovery of a primitive stone ax dug up in albemarle county virginia Is serving to upset this theory in the opinion of officials of the smithsonian institution who say that former ideas of when the first inhabitants reached the eastern shores of america are unsound they now believe that man trod virginia soil something alke like 2000 years ago students of the races read a running story in this new ax that Is so BO old it was waa no moro more than butof out of the albemarle county soil that had concealed it so BO long until it began re citing its tale of age and strange races specialists who understand these things say that the primitive ax was chipped out of black dis disabuse abase rock by some savage american 20 cantu centuries ries ago and that in time pos sibly because of disuse it became dull and was sharpened again by new and better informed chipping possibly some 1300 years ago then it was lost for good so far ns as the stone abo abe ax x age was concerned only to found by scientists of a new day and age who knew how to interpret the signs of discoloration and wear and other circumstances to determine age and the part earlier races had to do with tile the population of this side of the earth these readers of signs sign leave no point for layman argument they just move back population his tory and we agree that that Is that B but ut it does lay a burden on colum bus he thought or may have thought had he lived long enough that lie he missed virgin discovery by only years and we know kno on the evidence of present day science that he be missed it ten times st louis globe democrat |
