First Kansas Citian Was an Elephant Hunter Kansas City Star, 1964
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AM1994.21.2
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First Kansas Citian Was an Elephant Hunter Kansas City Star, 1964
Newspaper article - The Kansas City Star - "The First Kansas Citian Was an Elephant Hunter" - A history of man Paleo-Indian hunters who lived in Missouri and the region. August 9, 1964
Newspaper photo: Prehistoric man resembled a Mongolian, he used a spear with a throwing stick to kill mammoth on what is now the site of Kansas City.
Newspaper photo: Women of the ancient tribe used heated stones on a rock hearth to barbecue great chunks of mammoth meat.
Newspaper photo: This clovis point was found in 1938 on a hilltop in Kansas City North.
Newspaper photo: Indians slept on beds made of willow withes, James Mett Shippee, authority on early Indian life, explains as he sits on a replica is such a bed in the Kansas City Museum. The display is inside a simulated Osage hut of the 1800s.
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Paleontology
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The Kansas City Star, Early settlers, Kansas City Star, Indians
