the hero returned after his wanderings. Near it several graves were
found from which were exhumed silver amulets, curiously wrought
necklaces, bronze swords and metal ornaments bearing date 2,000 B.C.,
which is the date at which investigators lay the Siege of Troy.

If the ruins be really those of the palace of Ulysses, some interesting
things may be found to throw a light on the Homeric epic. As the
schoolboys know, when Ulysses set sail from Troy for home, adverse
winds wafted him to the coast of Africa and he beat around in the
adjacent seas and visited islands and spent a considerable time meeting
many kinds of curious and weird adventures, dallying at one time with
the lotus-eaters, at another braving the Cyclops, the one-eyed monsters,
until he arrived at Ithaca where "he bent his bow and slew the suitors
of Penelope, his harassed wife."

In North America are mounds, earthworks, burial sites, shell heaps,
buildings of stone and adobe, pictographs sculptured in rocks, stone
implements, objects made of bone, pottery and other remains which
arouse the enthusiasm of the archaeologist. As the dead were usually
buried in America, investigators try to locate the ancient cemeteries
because, besides skeletons, they usually contain implements, pottery
and ornaments which were buried with the corpses. The most
characteristic implement of early man in America was the grooved axe,
which is not found in any other country. Stone implements are plentiful
everywhere. Knives, arrow-points and perforators of chipped stone are
found in all parts of the continent. Beads and shells and pottery are
also found in almost every State.

The antiquity of man in Europe has been determined in a large measure
by archaeological remains found in caves occupied by him in different