Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1911 — Skeleton 4,900 Years Old. [ARTICLE]

Skeleton 4,900 Years Old.

SL Petersburg.—A stone coffin containing a skeleton, food. ales, and implements of the stone age, has been discovered in s 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.