Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1913 — CANNIBALS LIVED IN BOSTON [ARTICLE]

CANNIBALS LIVED IN BOSTON

Professor Harvey W. Shlmer Finds Actual FI rat Bettlera Relished Human Beinga. Boston. —That New England’s prehistoric man—who antedates the oldest inhabitants from 3,000 to 10,000 years, was a cannibal and of the orang-outang type, Is the contention of Harvey W. Shimmer, assistant professor of palentology at the Massar chusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Shlmer has unearthed strange utensils and remains In a shell mound at Ipswich which Bhow that the sarllest type thute dwelt from 3,000 to 5,000,* and perhaps 10,000 years ago, less than 40 miles from the heart of Boston. At Ipswich also pieces of broken bones of a human victim that. Professor Shlmer declares, was undoubtedly being sacrificed tc gratify a cannibal appetite were found. Professor Shlmer said: "There were a number of bones broken Into shorter pieces—human bones—which indicate that the earliest type of m»n was a cannibal. “At ancther kitchen-midden, which I explored at Gardner’s Island, off the Long Island shore. I found that the remains of a great auk. a bird now extinct. and pottery utensils made in the most primitive fashion, wholly unlike the European prehistoric pottery. Indicating that these early people lived here before the invasion of the European- types."