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) (14596396699)

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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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at least for a time, witli llio^e who tabricatcd thenicer iinplenients. The facts seem tu warrant thisconclusion, since amonj^st the kni\e> and blades ofl^arly Xeolithic Xo. 2 culture are fourteen thin, finelychi))))e(l blades that are so fresh that they certainlybelong in the Xeolithic .nroup, as to date. These maynot ha\e been ma<le cxactl) cotemi)orar_\ with thecoarser implements (Xeolithic Xo. I); but they mayha\e preceded or followed them, in the Kansas valley,by several hundred )ears. If the intrusive coarser cul-ture in the Kansais valley was in any way connectedwith the Wisconsin ice epoch, and if the rest of thecountry toward the south were still inhabited by the;)eople of Early Xeolithic \o. 2 culture, there couldnot have been a lon.^-continued occupation of the Kan-sas valley by the intruders: but in turn, on the ameli-oration of the climatic conditions, the southern peoplewould necessaril)- have resumed possession of thechert beds as the intruders retired toward the