generously made available - there are lessons here for everyone. DemetriosMatsakis Takoma Park, MD In an otherwisefinearticle byRichardA. Wertime on Thomas Jefferson, I could not help but notice the comment that many African-Americans have "dehumanized" our third President and view him as a "super-villain." Nothing could be further from the truth. We generally recognize that Jefferson loved African-Americans so much that he, one of our founding fathers, produced offspring from some of the very same people living on his estate. What greater evidence could there be for a humanized interpretation ofJefferson's close personal relationship with his employees? In the subsequent paragraph the author employs a common oversimplification used to describe the African-American community as dichotomous. He refers to two castes of slaves, yet ignores the existence of free blacks in Virginia. Did the father of liberty fail to engage in social intercourse with this latter group of blacks? Why not? Surely his concept of liberty extended beyond statements voiced at contemporary debating clubs. Walter W.Hill Jr. St. Mary's College of Maryland Takoma Park, MD Record Wet Site Your fascinating report by C lottes and Courtin (May/June 1993) is much appreciated, particularly in view of the extraordinary difficulities under which the photographs from Cosquer Cave were obtained. The only quibbles I have concern the title "World's Oldest Cave Art." Nobody knows where the oldest surviving cave art is because very few sites have been dated so far. But even the insertion of the word "dated" in the middle of the title would not render it valid. What was dated in Cosquer Cave was not the continuedon page 84 12 Archaeology