Science: The Diggers

Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in caves, pits, mounds, quarries, buttes for vestiges of the creatures that roamed the earth before them. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating whole dead civilizations. Millions of dollars spent in digging every year. . . . Following are significant efforts and exhumations of the past few months in the Western Hemisphere:

In California, Ethnologist J. P. Harrington of the Smithsonian Institution sought to aid archeological Americana by questioning old, feeble Indians possessed of knowledge of their race's...

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