Fig. 24-1

Artifact recovered from site 11 What is the Artifact locked in the substrate? (Sabretooth, Allosaurus tooth?) What is the Substrate? (Possibly Coprolite?) When was the attempted ancient “excavation” of the subject, which is evident by “Tool Marks” surrounding the Artifact? Was it intended to look line an elephant? The earth works in the Ohio valley were comparatively recent and created later then the first sights in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. As indicated by the total absence of signs of the Mastodon. The earlier sites seem to have some acquaintance with the "melephant, confirmed by the worship of the “mammoth” expressed in pictographs. (The Aborigines of Minnesota; Winchell 1911)

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