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BONES OF A PREHISTORIC MAN AND WOMAN FOUND IN A MOUND. Both Were Nearly Nine Feet High When Alive—Fossils and Remains of Animals Also Found. BIG TIMBER, Mont., July 2.—Wonder ful finds of fossils and bones of prehistoric animals are being made in the Fish Creek country by Professor Marchus S. Farr and a party of students from Princeton College. The party is composed, in addition to Pro fessor Farr, of C. D. Thompson, Laurence Thompson, 8. A. Halsey, Gordon Forbes, Walter Kimball, Charles H. Dugro and L. S. Adsitt. The remains of a stone-age city have been found in which the bones of ani mals of great size, along with stone imple ments of all kinds, many of which are ornamented with gems. In a mound near the creek were found the almost complete skeleton of a man. The bones showed that the man, when alive, measured nearly nine feet in height and was of powerful build. Nearby was the skeleton of a woman, a trifle smaller in size, and at the foot was the skeleton of an animal that resembled the dog of today except the animal must have been as large as a small horse.
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The Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Fri, Jul 03, 1903
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