New archaeological discoveries in the northeastern part of Arizona bearing upon the life of the remote ancestors of the Pueblo Indians who flourished more than three thousand years ago have just been announced by Charles L. Bernheimer, who recently returned from his ninth expedition from the American Museum of Natural History. His finds, which are now located in the New York Museum of Natural History, include examples of weapons, clothing, tools, household goods, ceremonial gear and skeletons of the Post Basket Makers and their successors.
Mr. Bernheimer, who is a New York Jewish cotton broker and banker, whose hobby is exploration, has been largely instrumental in opening up the desert country between the Colorado River and Navajo Mountains in northern Arizona and southern Utah. He has discovered many heretofore unknown cliff ruins and dinosaur tracks. His discoveries last fall in the southeastern corner of Utah may eventually revise science’s conceptions of early life on this continent. This year’s expedition into northeastern Arizona is the ninth of this sort that he has led and he regards the expedition’s success as “phenomenal, both scientifically and educationally.” Mr. Bernheimer finances all his expeditions himself.
In 1926 M. Bernheimer was chairman of the Cotton Goods Division of the United Jewish Campaign. He is a trustee of the Baron de Hirsch Fund and Valeria Home and a member of Temple Emanu-El.
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