The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-23

fOrcibly fractured its materials, and
Clipped rude blades from its spalls de-
posting large quantities of workshop
debris over the surface of the sandbar
His operations there were continued for
a long period of time, during which many
seasons of floating ice and high stages
of water in the Mississippi Overspread
the plain, submerged the Sandbar, over
turned and covered up his blades and
chips and receded. AS the ice gOrges
and overfiows seasonably disappeared
the same people again approached the
crest OF the Sandbar and continued their
operations as quarrymen and clippers of
the white mineral. That primitive and
ancient industry was continued until the
Mississippi River at Little Falls ceased
to be an overlooking glacial WatercourSe,
when they proceeded with their opera
'tions on the surface of the plain near
the quarrieS for a limited period of time
finally disappearing from the locality at
or near the date when the ice-sheet re-
coded from the basin of the Mississippi,
leaving their quartz blades and chips
promiscuously intermiXed with water
deposited modified drift.
1-From the period when primitive
man first appeared at Little Falls until
the present date the surface of the plain
at that locality has from time to time
been subjected to severe and penetrating
temperatures, which have solidly frozen
and quickly thawed that SSyface to a
depth of about six feet, Slightly but uni
Versally disturbing the OverSpread modi-
'0eNAAOC
enhanced by the footprints of man, Ice
gorges, overlooking waters, ants and
insects, the roots of shrubbery and the
lapse of time, but the StratificatiOn is
sufficiently intact, to certainly and alb
solutely demonstrate that primitive man
was present and chipping quartz at the
time when fuctuating glacial floods
were periodically stratifying the gravel
beds where his implements rest.
H. THE Notch" was probably also the
scene of primitive activities, but it is
not suitable place for technical tests
on account of backwater overflow, tree
roots and sliding talus
Is Quartz objects are rarely present in
the gravel beds on the west side of the
place on that side of the river could they
be found to exceed two feet below the
surface.
IA No evidences were observed certain
ly indicating that any primitive TRIBE or
band occupied the region at Little Falls
between the time when the paleolithic
quartz blades We're made and the I'M
known prehistoric date when ancient
mound builders appeared at Kahabikan-
sing as temporary and transient occu-
pants not earlier than the dawn of the
basis of several thousand years.
10. 1t does not require that we imag-
inc or presume that paleolithic man pre-
ceded the mound builder at Little Falls
for every discovered fact certainly indi-
Gates. his presence there when the north
ern portion of Minnesota was enveloped
beneath the last Bldcld1 Ice sheet, about
B. c. 1000, or even 1000 years earlier than
that very ancient date
L. No Postcards, arrow points, spear
heads, stone axes, grooved hammers or
any other neolithic or mound builder ar
tifacts have ever been or can now be.
found associated with the quartz blades
beneath any of the cobbles and pebbles
at Little Falls
II. There is no evidence to show that
man was at Little Falls when the ice
sheet rested. at or over the quartz veins.
He came when the sandy plain was in
process of formation as the streambed
ciaI river.
IS, The occupancy to him was impor-
tent as base of supplies 1t follows
that there were sexes, births and deaths
Only. one primitive art Is manifest: the
conchoidal fracture of a paleoHthic
quartz blade
Who were they?
From whence did they come and their
departure? 80
The human family sprang from anthro-
poid apes; the evolution undoubtedly COW
ering period of 100000 years That
might place his cradle beyond Amertca.