Primitive man in Ohio / by Warren K. Moorehead.

  • Warren K. Moorehead
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Primitive man in Ohio / by Warren K. Moorehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    box-shapecl cavity entirely separate from the one that enclosed the body. Seven dark-gray sandstone objects, similar to an axe in outline, and a cup, con- structed from the shell of a land tortoise, were with the head. In the right parietal was an aperture where an arrow had penetrated the brain. The point was found within the skull. One of the fragments of another cranium had a small arrow-head im- bedded in it. Just above Cat’s Creek, which empties into the Muskingum a mile above Lowell, is a gravelly ter- race on which are eleven mounds and a small enclos- ure. This is the only enclosure in the Muskingum valley, save the large one at Marietta. The highest mound between Marietta and Zanesville lies upon the farm of John Newton. It is twelve feet in alti- tude and has a base of ninety or one hundred feet. North of the enclosure is a small mound which Mr. Davis explored, finding upon the base line an altar four feet square, dipping toward the centre, and six inches high. In the altar were the following objects, together with charcoal and ashes: a sandstone tab- let, three by four inches, and half an inch thick; a diamond-shaped tablet of slate, two and a half by three inches; a flint spear-head five inches long; a striped slate ornament four inches in length, with two perforations; another beautifully polished orna- ment, oval-shaped, with two perforations ; a thick tablet of sandstone four inches in length, a some- what smaller tablet, fragments of copper, and a tube of clay and sand. Below the altar just described were found logs ten
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