The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no. 1. - a consideration of the paleoliths of Kansas (illustrated by 20 figures and 19 half-tone plates) (1913) (14782717532)

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Title: The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no. 1. : a consideration of the paleoliths of Kansas (illustrated by 20 figures and 19 half-tone plates)
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Winchell, N. H. (Newton Horace), 1839-1914 Minnesota Historical Society
Subjects: Stone implements -- Kansas Kansas -- Antiquities
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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ttributable to the Ohio dynastyof the Moundbuilders, or to some of their predeces-sors. It would re<)uire much time to determine whetherPaleolitliic man had any jiart in making these excava-tions. The location, as in Kansas, is not onh favor-ably near a chert-bearing limestone ridge, but is quitenear the southern limit of the greatest known conti-nental ice-sheet. Only scattering pebbles of norther-ly drift are seen on the ridge at the w^estern end. Itis a promising location at which to look for Paleo-lithic artifacts. Large craggy masses of chert, moreor less diversified by quartz and amethystine geodes.arc a common feature on the slopes. CIvrduiKl. At the museum of the Western ReserveHistorical Society the Xewcomerstown Paleolithfound by Prof. \\. C. Mills in ISS^.) can be seen. Itis of black chert. but is variegated with fragmentsof fossils which arc whitish on the surface, and withsome porosit\-. as well as with some small remaining WEATHERING OF STONM: .\I;T1FACTS. PT.ATE XVT.
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MINN. HIST. sue. PALEOLITH. NEWCOMERSTOWN, O. PAGE 1G2. xewc()-Mi:ks;(»w.\ ialkoi.itii. 163 part of the limestone with which the chert is asso-ciated, the hist not bein.L;- i;loss\-. (Otherwise the sj^ec-inien is i^lossy. The longer edt^es were battered bynse prior to its )ia\ini^ l)een incorporated in the gravel,on one side more than on the other. The gloss andthe generally unworn surface, and the sharpness ofthe outer angles, all indicate that as a constituent ofthe gravel terrace it had not much experience beforecoming to rest in the terrace, but that the most of itslife history transpired prior to the gravel deposition.The sides are about eqtially glossy. If the gravelterrace be found to be a consecptent of the Wisconsinice-epoch, it appears therefore that this implementoriginated earlier, and falls into the culture as wellas the date of what is herein called Early Neolithic.Its date is pre-Wisconsin. but not pre-Kansan. ( Com-pare No. 5715 of plate NIII.) It is noteworthy thatli