Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1911 — Skeleton 4,900 Years Old. [ARTICLE]

Skeleton 4,900 Years Old.

St Petersburg.—A stone coffin containing a skeleton, food, ales, and implements of the stone age, has been discovered in a - cave tn the Aland isles. The character of the weapons and implements indicate that they are of a period at least 3000 B. C., when the Aland isles were submerged, the coffin and its contents having been lowered in a depression In the sea |>ed. which accounts for its wonderful pre* grietfoa. —•- -r* *