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m-ie v. gl :e Preliminary work for what may be the most important archaeological excavations *r-TeV€r undertaken in the West- _ ern Hemisphere will he fin­ished at the end of next week, ter I according to an amnounce-ib- ment by Judge Clark J. Guild, ! board chairman and general m curator of the Nevada State Du Museum in Carson City. as • Members of the museum staff are directing the dig at Tule Springs, 10 miles from Las Vegas. A $300,000, four-month project, the excava­tion of the site is expected to reveal new secrets which may prove the existence of man in this area some 30,000 w! years ago. >n! That date is about 10,000 years earlier than scientists have so far been able to j-o trace man in this area. It would radically change some j concepts of early human life j on the North American conti- j nent. iDr. Richard Shutler Jr., cu­rator of anthropology at the museum, is director of the Tule Springs work: Assisting him is Dr. Charles Rozaire, the museum’s curator of ar­chaeology. They will have a full staff of some 20 scientists I ?working under them during the operation. Basic funds for the Tule Springs dig came in the form of a $42,200 grant from the National Science Foundation to the museum. Backing up this are contributions of mon­ey and equipment from vari-i ouis companies and interested j individuals. Among the con­tributions is the heavy earth-moving equipment which will be used for the first time in an archaeological expedition. It will open for scientific study a site at /Tule Springs covering an area of 3.00 by 3,000 feet. a, Jjj le it d 1 a n s M r a m li i t ./ 'i ij k f f ii ?del • i - f can iI an; Ba: moi talk ned, Deal Cpn and