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These are only two out of many hundred obsidian implements found in the sandy desert intimably associated & mixed with the bones of extinct [[strikethrough]] animals, bone  The animals were des [[/strikethrough]] mammalia,  birds & fishes.  The animals were named by Prof Cape Amer Naturalist Nov 1889, p979 and the fishes by Dr Shufeldt Amer Naturalist September 1891.

If the man who made & left these implements was contemporary with the animals whose bones were found associated, it is an evidence of the high antiquity of man.