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I P l m iilB k L f w T da state M,u,seu" V hows piece of toolmade Kelly Walker, center, Union Oil aide, and Times repo rtbeyr pGreimorigtiev e Rm^saonn sto9 Tif fties M 'pWh Jfeoto FOSSIL SEARCH Continued from Pag£ type, with modem man's brain capacity, rather deli­cate in features and "prob­ably around five ft. tall. Despite his stature, Shat­ter believes he was a forhifc dable hunter who tackled the huge mammoth with the same hit-and-run ; tactics used by the African pgymy. A field team from the American Museum of Natur­al History stumbled on Tule Springs in 1933 on the banks of a wash ' l l: miles, north­west of Las Vegais. ~ ? \ i ' ’ X* v • ' . . l.'f-, •* ’• > ' ;? W Y- I Three Sm all Diggings i Three small exploratory diggings have been conduct­ed by the Southwest Mu­seum of Los Angeles. But a systematic assault was nev­er attempted because of the costs. The impending excavation ! was underwritten by a $42,- 000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Actual costs will run much more. H. C. Smith, associate ar­cheologist of the Nevada State Museum/^#h|supervise the earth moving Operation. He has enlisted the help of business and industry on the project. Dr. l ^ busy with cultur­al samples, 72 of which have been located without one shovelful of earth b e i n g turned. And somewhere on the edge o f an ancient firepit may rest the skull of a primi­tive than. find him/V says Shutter, “he unquestionably will be the oldest known man in the Americas/' 1 % ^ 4 t J N '