Word: columbian
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Accurately dated (by tree rings) as undoubtedly pre-Columbian is an Indian pueblo from which the Smithsonian Institution got a diseased vertebra. Dr. Tobin's diagnosis: tuberculosis. Another revealing item (because cancer was, and still is, rare among Indians): a pre-Columbian pelvis which showed that its original owner suffered from a spreading carcinoma of the prostate...