| Show smithsonian aid uncovers traces of an ancient race of indian brewers A A prehistoric race of indians who were the longest h headed ea ded people ever known on earth may also have been among the heaviest dr drinker lakers ac co cording arding to discoveries to in the big bend country of west texas an bounced by the smithsonian institution cave hewed out of st a limestone limestone cliff and apparently used is ai a cere ceremonial brewery was excavated near dryden texas b by y frink frank M Setz setzler lir head curator of the institutions Institution 1 department of an while ie searching arching for or dwelling sites of this mysterious people whose existence he discovered only seven years igo ago setzler located i a cave 60 feet wide by 40 feet deep that gave evidence of ei extensive cooking operations erat ions i setzler ara and bis assistants d dug g uv through nine feet of debris unco uncovering arrowheads scrapers drills and stone knives but a relative scarcity odthe of the usual cooked animal bones and human skeletons the eaves caves ordinarily were both dwelling and burial places in front of the cave was waa an ib ab normally large accumulation of cooking stones furthermore there then were great depp deposits sits of ashes of so tol the lily from a highly potent alcoholic beverage was brewed in addition to the lack of animal bones and human skeletons andl eating cating that the cave was nas not used to house a family group grou and the abundance of f cooking stones and sotol ashes evidence that the cave was wai a brewery came horn hom a boulder with a hole drilled in it the boulder may have been used as a brewing kettle |
