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Prehistoric Man in Mammoth Cave

Some 2,000 years ago Indians went deep into the great cavern in Kentucky to mine gypsum, leaving behind them many traces of a society that was just beginning to develop agriculture

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 203 Issue 1This article was originally published with the title “Prehistoric Man in Mammoth Cave” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 203 No. 1 (), p. 130
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0760-130