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back to the Paleo-Indian period and the oldest levels may well be some 10,000 years of age.
   The cave is located in an isolated region, which accounts for its archeological nature being unknown until recently.  It is in the form of a large rock shelter, 250 feet wide, 270 feet deep, and 25 feet high.  An interesting feature is that it is naturally air conditioned.  A fissure in the rear of the cave connects with a deep cavern through which flows a sizable stream.  Through this fissure blows a current of cool air from the cavern.
   In making preliminary tests, Mr. Miller found that the first three feet consisted of pottery-bearing strata representing the last 1500 years.  Below this are abundant stone artifacts of prepottery age, deposited by the archaic peoples and early man.  There is a good possibility that still deeper may be found indications of the culture of eastern Folsom man.
   In addition to the archeological data, important evidence as to ecological changes should be found.  In his test at a depth of only four feet, Mr. Miller found a group of large snails of a very rare type which are now extinct in the area.  Bone and shell are abundant and beautifully preserved in the deposits.  Changes in animal and bird life should furnish significant evidence as to climatic changes during the long period of occupancy.
   The excavations have been made possible through the generosity of the National Geographic Society in providing the necessary funds.  Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., cooperated in the project by detailing Mr. Miller to the Bureau for a period of two months.  The cooperation of C. K. Peacock, J. B. Graham, L. W. Pahmeyer, and Paul H. Brown of Chattanooga, Tenn., who hold the lease on Russell Cave, enabled the Smithsonian to conduct these archeological excavations.


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RETURNS TO RBS STAFF
   Mrs. Evelyn B. Stewart has rejoined the staff of the River Basin Surveys at Lincoln, Nebr.  Mrs. Stewart was employed there for several years as file clerk before transferring to the Veterans Administration.  She is now returning in a half-time capacity.

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PUBLISHED IN MARCH
   "Marine Polychaete Worms from Labrador," by Marian H. Pettibone (Museum Proceedings, 54 pages).
   "Bryozoa of the United States Navy's 1947-1948 Antartic Expedition, I-IV," by Mary D. Rogick (Museum Proceedings, 97 pages).
   "Revision of the Milliped Genus Dixioria (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)," by Richard L. Hoffman (Museum Proceedings, 9 pages).
   Table of Contents and Index for Volume 103 of the Proceedings of the National Museum (40 pages).

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