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Title: Ohio archæological and historical publications
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
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Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by F.J. Heer
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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he high gravel terraces near Abbeville. At once, whenattention was directed to the conditions in which these werefound, other implements of a similar type were found in sim-ilar situations in various places in England. And some tenor twelve years ago, Dr. Abbott, of Trenton, N. J., began tafind implements of a similar type in the extensive graveLdeposits near his home upon the Delaware River. It was myprivilege to visit the locality, five years ago, in company withProfessor Boyd Dawkins, of England, and Professor Haynes,of Boston, both of whom are specialists in this line of inves-tigation, and have spent much time in studying the localitiesin Europe where palaeolithic implements have been found,. Vol. 1—12 178 Ohio Archceological and Historical Quarterly. and both were struck with the resemblance between the terraces of the Delaware, where Dr. Abbott finds his implements,and the terraces in the valley of the Somme, where Bouchesde Perthes made his discoveries. From my own prolonged
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C 3> £ 5 co fct» investigations since, I am perfectly confident that the gravelterraces on the Delaware have their counterpart in the variousglacial terraces in Ohio, to which your attention has beendirected. The Glacial Period and Archceology in Ohio. 179 It is only rough stone implements of the type shown inthe accompanying plate, which are found in the situationsjust mentioned, connecting them with the spring freshets ofthe glacial period. Smoothed stone implements have neverbeen found in situations indicating anything like the antiquitybelonging to some specimens of the palaeolithic type. It is exceedingly important for the interests of archaeologythat local observers, in various portions of Ohio, shouldbecome thoroughly familiar with the facts just presented.Heretofore the attention of collectors has been so generallydirected to the ordinary Indian type of flint implements, andthere has been such anxiety to obtain perfect specimens ofthese, that implem

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