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Frank C. Hibben


Born
in Lakewood, Ohio, The United States
December 05, 1910

Died
June 11, 2002

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Frank Cumming Hibben (December 5, 1910 – June 11, 2002) was a well-known archaeologist whose research focused on the U.S. Southwest. As a professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and writer of popular books and articles, he inspired many people to study archaeology. He was also controversial, being suspected of scientific fraud during his studies of Paleo-Indian cultures.
The primary source of the controversies was Hibben's claim to have found a deposit with pre-Clovis artifacts (including projectile points, which he termed "Sandia points") in Sandia Cave (in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico). Hibben believed the layers to be about 25,000 years old, much older than the Paleo-Indian cultures previously documented in th
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Hunting American Lions

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Indian Hunts and Indian Hun...

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Under the African Sun: Fort...

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Kiva Art of the Anasazi at ...

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Hunting American Bears

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Hunting in Africa

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The Last Americans

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The Lost Americans

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Prehistoric Man in Europe

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“The Pleistocene period ended in death. This was no ordinary extinction of a vague geological period which fizzled to an uncertain end. This death was catastrophic and all-inclusive... The large animals that had given the name to the period became extinct. Their death marked the end of the era.
But how did they die? What caused the extinction of forty million animals?”
Frank C. Hibben, The Lost Americans, The Story of the Man They Said Never Was: Old Stone-Age American

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