Primitive man in Ohio / by Warren K. Moorehead.

  • Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King), 1866-1939.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Primitive man in Ohio / by Warren K. Moorehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    three thousand chipped specimens taken from mounds and on the surface of the ground. None of the specimens in his collection, however, resembled it. He then requested Mr. A. A. Graham, secretary of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, to forward the specimen to Professor Wright for exam- ination, who at once recognized it as a true palseolith, having a striking resemblance to those which are found in the valley of the Somme, in northern France. Professor G. Frederick Wright in speaking of the Tuscarawas palseolith1 says : “ As is to be expected, however, the material from which the implement is made is of local origin, and differs much in appearance from that of the French implement. Upon showing this specimen from New Comerstownto my asso- ciate, Professor Albert A. Wright, who did much work upon the State Geological Survey, in Holmes County, immediately adjoining Tuscarawas, he at once recognized the material as a black flint, or chert, which occurs with much frequency in the ‘ Lower Mercer’ limestone strata, an exposure of which passes through the eastern part of Holmes County, and he was able at once to go to his drawer and produce the accompanying specimen, which he brought home from that vicinity several years ago. The same authority gives a most complete description of the Tuscarawas implement in the New York Nation of April 24, 1890. “ The flint implement referred to is a perfect representa- tive of the palaeolithic type of northern France and southern England. It is four inches long, two inches wide, and an inch and a half through at its larger end, 1 Paper by G. Frederick Wright, LL.D., in Rep. of Western Reserve Hist. Soc., Dec. 12, 1890. Tract No. 75.