Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
3103
AUTHOR:
Luther Cressman, anthropologist
QUOTATION:
[The wearer of these sandals] did not look out on swirling dust devils or miles of alkali and sand flats, as we did that hot August day, but on a great lake with wavelets lapping against a beach below the cave.
ATTRIBUTION:
On his 1938 discovery of a pair of 9,000-year-old sandals, the oldest dated New World artifacts, quoted by Jane Howard Margaret Mead Simon & Schuster 84
