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14 BMlBil Will lAmerica'sFiKdiM ? L^ h or artifacts that conclusively link 30,000 year lin o ! SIN k ‘*1 - l Sfe^" ' ’iff1: ,:- How did the scientists stum bleonto this;-bay B - ......... ; _ . by accident, hunch or divining rod? The answer is nowKftf ’4bes& Back in 1933, a group from the -American Museum ^ ofe-Natltttd-^ S H istory, making a sortie through the area, turned # p in«mihotti‘:*®s charcoal heaps shortly afteu “He ^owed--them-ito^e-;^H804^?:i?4 v ....._ recalls D r. Chester Lonew ell. a project adviser. -undoubtedly w ere used, as crude"l^ denients.^ ^ ^ B w M B ^ B fe l» H p i Then, in 1968, the museum’s B ip t Jlm psoh d p co verec^ h il^ ; - 'is ? raiw rterily t k L. r* /f neighborhood. But it was not until this past faH '^ s^ 'an^ -Jari^ ^ S^ ^ ^ ' scale attempt was made to pry open the past. A National Science Foundation grant.offered $42,200; aid from 1 | B ggwram m t • * oil com panies, equipment firm s and private -individuals U n d s^ ^ ||p s,. wrote rem aining expenses, and the, p re se n t-M ra ij^ jc m ^ isf^ ^ ^ w . very plain to me that man was around fa r longer th an r'^ M p iC ® ® ^ ^ ^ we’ve really ^ x t^ e a u tio u s scientists, th esel'ife” ,re m ^ |H ^ p to .g « p lo g ^ ^ ^ ^ M pngineer H erschet S m itiy ^ M ^ n ^ l^ '''''?*"' >* Hltl w M m W m m V£:M ;v:;V-