Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 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 in. 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 bed, which accounts for its wonderful preservation. / ,