Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-07-18

spersed with larger. which suggest pieces OF
brick. Overying this stratum was layer OF
sand with layer of more recent prlck eartn
above 1t, then red loan, and finally the vegetable
top soil-altogether four strata, averaging about
six feet in total thickness
The top of the stratum in which the remains
were found appears to have been the land surface
of the age in which the man lived. This is shown
by the fortunate discovery, some 30 yards away,
of the charred and blackened remains of pre-
historic fire hearths, fragments of burnt bones
and wood, worked fints and many animal bones.
The worked aints have been submitted to expert
examination at the British museum, where the
balance of opinion appears to be in favor of
assigning them to the paleolithic period, or, at
any rate, to the time Of transition between that
and the neolithc age, which would place their
age at $4,000 years. Geological evidence,
however, dates them still further back. for the
corresponding deposits on the opposite side of
the Midway have yielded fossils of peistocene
times, when the hairy mammoth, arctic fox, rein
deer and woolly rhnoceros roamed the land. The
inference, therefore, is that we have here paleo
lithic encampment, and that the skeleton was
of the party, who, judging from the position
of the remains, inferred a short distance
below the then surface, while some religious sig
nificance is suggested by the body being buried
with the head to the east.
How did the human remains to lie in
this stratum of brick earth? DR.. Edwards OBJ
served, from the position of the bones which
remained fast in place, that the skeleton lay on
Its back, that all parts of the skeleton were rep
resented, and that the whole did not occupy
than extent of three feet in length
evidence that the body was in the contracted"
posture at DEATH A complete skeleton, much
weathered and fragmentary, and in contracted
posture, could only be explained by supposing
that 1t had been buried. The solution of the
problem became apparent later. At some dis
tance from the site of the skeleton there were
found extensive remains of ancient fire hearths.
These lay Immediately the stratum con-
tanning the skeleton, and under the everything or
fourth stratum. This level represented old
land surface, and the skeleton probably
of the men who sat round the hearths that
old land surface. That is the explanation Mr..
Cook suggested at a recent meeting of the Royal
Anthropologcal institute, when he gave ac-
count of his discoveries. Mr.. A.. 8. Kennard
who is our highest authority on the age OF val
ley deposits. regards the strata over the Halling
man late pleistocene in date Mr.. Cook de-
scrbed the flint implements found on the old land
surface, but they belong to type which
used by paleolithic we'll nsolthc men.
The remains of the skeleton were forwarded to
Professor Keith of the Royal College of Surgeons,
for expert examination. and. he explained to
the writer, close scrutiny revealed the surpris-
Ing fact that we have here type of who,
In every particular-brain capacity. conformation
of skull. long oval face. pointed projecting chin,
stature Give feet four inches) and general build