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Ancient Kentuckians Hunted Small Game
By RONALD J. BUTLER
Associated Press Writer
(Second In A Series
Unlike their Paleo Indian ancestors, Kentucky's first
citizens could no longer
semi-permane-

count on the virtually extinct Ice-Amammals for food.
Instead of being able to rely on
the mammoth, mastadon, and
sloth, the Archaic Indians had to
look for the smaller game, mussels from the rivers, And wild
plants.
They found this food along the
Green, Cumberland,
Tennessee,
and Ohio Rivers.
In addition to gathering mussels
and wild plants, they hunted the

istics of the Archaic Indians, who
came to Kentucky eight or nine
thousand years ago, was their
habit of burying their dead in a
flexed position, with the knees
drawn up toward the chest.
Dr. Douglas W. Schwartz, direc-

tor of the UK Museum of Anthropology, says the mounds may have
been used for burials because they
wanted their dead to be near the

scene of everyday life
There Is good reason to believe
the Archaic
Indians had some
form of belief In an afterlife.
The basis for this supposition is
the practice of burying tools, ornaments, and weapons with the dead,
perhaps in the belief they would be
deer, racoon, possum, squirrel, needed In the next life.
ground hog, fox, beaver, bear, wildOr, Dr. Schwartz says, the articat, and wild turkey.
facts may have been buried simply
And, thanks to their accumula- because of a strong sense of ownetion of huge piles of mussel shells rshipthat something a man owned
and bones, something Is known of In life belonged to him even after
their way of life.
death.
These mounds of debris, know as Archaic Indian sites have been
midden piles, also contained their found all over the state.
dead, buried in circular pits along
The major sites are near
with ornaments, tools, spear points Paradise in Ohio County; at Minand spear throwers, and other ing City and Morgan town in But.items.
ler County; and Calhoun, McLean
One of the Identifying character County.
.

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ThU Archaic Indian grave was excavated In Ohio County tooth
of Rock port. The Archaic Indians became Kentucky's first semipermanent citlsens eif ht or nine thousand years ago.

UK-Given.-$599,47-

To Build Dental Wing
UK has received a grant of $599.- 477 from the UJ3. Public Health
Service to be used for construction
of the dental wing of the Medical
Sciences Building.
UK officials were notified of the
the grant by a telegram from Dr.
Ernest M. Allen, chief of the dlvi-so- n
of research grants of the National Institute of Health.

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ed, Dr. Bost said.

Rice, Conder. Reign Over
Block And Bridle Festival

Maltland Rice and Mary Lou milk bottle And
Conder reigned as king and queen judges' stand.
at the Block and Bridle Fall FesThe 'bucking barrel" was ridden
tival Friday at the UK Stock Pavi-lo- n. by 15 pledges who were initiated
Friday at the Festival.
Block and Bridle initiates include
James Ragland won the beef and
sheep showmanship contests and Eldon Caleps, senior; Clyde Cor-ma- n,
was awarded the overall showmanBobbie Llnd Chushman,
ship trophy. The swine judging Lawrence Edge, Mendel Howard,
competition was won by Kenneth Linda Jenkins, Carl Littrell. HerHeilman.
bert McOaughey, Wayne Midden,
Frank Moss, James Peake, Thomas
The greased- pig was caught and
Quisenberry,
Kevin Ryan, Bill
held for 60 seconds by Jack Belt. Smith, Jerry Staton, Ben Taylor,
Lou Rae King, won the sorority Vincent Guarino, and Carolyn
cow milking contest by filling a Llpps, freshmen.
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Vol. L

Fifteen

applicants have

been

No. 29

10, 1959

Block And Bridle Royalty

Agriculture students chose Maltland Rice And Mary Lou Condor
to reign at the Block And Bridle Culb's Annual Fall Festival Friday
in the Stock Pavilion. The festival, held annually, Included a
contest and other events.
greased pig chase, coed

Sunday.
Other applications are pending,
he said.
Of the 219 applications received
to date, 159 have been Kentucky
residents.
Qualified Kentucky residents are
being given preference in compliance with the college's policy. Dr.
Straus said.
"However, some well qualified
residents will be Admitted to each class as a means
of attracting additional physicians
to Kentucky," he added.
The first Medical School class
will be composed of 40 to 50 students. Dr. William B, Willard.
in charge of the Medical
Center and dean of the College of
Medicine, estimated.
The class will begin in the fall of
1960. Later, classes are expected to
reach a maxium of 75.
The capacity of medical college
classes Is governed by the facilities
and faculty available to give the
student adequate clinical and
laboratory experience. Dr. Straus
out-of-st-

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ate

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ent

said.
Applications are acted upon in
three categories. Dr. Straus ex-

Continued on Page 8

15 For Admittance

review.

cow-milki-

.Med School AcceBts

plained.
1. Those with especially strong
qualifications are marked for early

life began.
This was the woodland culture,
a way of life made possible by
the gradual development of

LEXINGTON, KY., TUESDAY, NOV.

vice-presid-

tinued until about 1,500 B.C., when
another phase of Kentucky Indian

University of Kentucky

recommended for admission to the
UK College of Medicine, Dr. Robert Straus, head of the college's
racing to the Admission committee. Announced

Include shell beads, bone beads,
bone hair pins, awls, and, occasionally, terrapin shell rattles.
The Archaic Indian culture con-

shortly after the contract is award-

The grant represents federal
The building will cost about
government, participation in the
24 million dollars. It will contain
cost of areas In the dental building
to be used for research. Dr. How- six floors and will be Adjacent to
ard Bost, Assistant vice president the Medical Sciences Building.

them.
Ornaments found in the graves

m rm txt-t-It
1

day.

The funds are available and will
be paid as construction progresses.
Bids for construction of the dental
science building will be opened
Nov. 17.
Construction will
be started

graves.
Some bones have been found
with spear points imbedded la

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for the Medical Center, said yester

Archaic Indian
remains show
they averaged five feet, four inches
tall with an average life span of
only 27 years for males.
There was a high Infant mortality rate And, Dr. Schwarts says,
0 per cent of them suffered some
form of arthritis.
Two "firsts" of Kentucky Indian
prehistory also have been found
in the Archaic graves the first
physical evidence of wartime or
violence and the first sign of the
domesticated dog.
Dogs are often found interred
with human
remains in these

Nearing Completion
t
Straus, chairman of .the Department of Behavioral.
Science In the UK Medical Center, and Miss Florence Monsen
check construction progress in one of the 20 multiple purpose
student laboratories in the new Medical Center Building. Dr.
Straus is head of the College's Admissions committee And Miss
Monsen Is .staff assistant for admissions and student affairs.
Dr.-Rober-

Professor Defends 4Lady Chatterly'
"Evil to him who evil thinks," Author spends little oa characterwas the way Dr. Sheldon Oreb-stei- n, ization, dress, and philosophy.
professor of English, summed
He explained further that these
up his talk on "Dirt. Art, And books have one erotlo scene After
Literature," yesterday at A SUB Another on sex. Seduction Is usualTopics meeting.
ly easy or at least brief.
'
was based on "Lady
The talk
The sexual contacts Are unreChatterly's Lover" by D. II. Law- lated to the rest of the person's
rence.
character," he said. "The charDr. Grebsteln said that A book acters have little in common . . .
whose only purpose Is to excite the their relationship is lasting only
reader sexually is defined as por- so long as the Act lasts."
nography. In such a book the
Dr. Grebsteln added that such

books on sex are termed escape
literature and have little thinking
but much action.
According to him, the Attitude of
American literature is influenced
by three theories. The social view
Is that sex Is shameful and should
be restrained in public and ignored in private. If possible.
The moral or religious theory Is
that sex is merely to create chil- Contlnued on Page t .