Science: The Diggers

Little bands of men roaming over the earth, poking in caves, pits, mounds, buttes for vestiges of the creatures who roamed the earth before them. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating whole dead civilizations. Millions of dollars spent in digging every year. Following are significant exhumations of the past few months;

At Bainbridge, Ohio, state archeologists opened the great Seip Mound and discovered four evidently royal cadavers of the pre-Indian Mound Builders, lying among quarts and quarts of fresh-water pearls and many polished and carved stone pipes (TIME,...