398 PROCEEDINGS OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



counterfeit pearls — in all these respects the mound builders 

 are brought before us as numerous, highly organized, religious 

 committees animated by all the desires and passions of ordinary 

 humanity. 



PAL/EOLITHIC MAN IN OHIO 



Indications of the presence of man in Ohio at a time far 

 antecedent to that of the mound builders have been found at 

 three places in undisturbed glacial deposits. These are of so 

 much interest and have elicited so much criticism that it will be 

 profitable to restate the facts in some detail. As far back as 

 1875 Dr. C. C. Abbott reported finding implements of palaeolithic 

 type in the glacial gravels at Trenton, New Jersey. Having 

 visited this region in 1880 and gone over the field in company 

 with Professor Boyd Dawkins, Professor Haynes, ]\Ir. H. Carvill 

 Lewis, and Dr. Abbott, the evidence of the occupation of the 

 Atlantic coast by man during the Glacial period was such as to 

 perfectly satisfy my own mind. On completing my survey of 

 the glacial boundary in Ohio, in 1883, I called attention at a 

 meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History, March 7, 

 1883 (reported in Science, vol I. pp. 269-27 r) to a number of 

 places in Ohio where glacial gravels had accumulated in the same 

 manner and approximately at the same date as those at Trenton 

 had done, and suggested that similar indications of man's presence 

 in Ohio during the Glacial period might be looked for, pro- 

 vided the reported discoveries at Trenton were genuine. 



This drew out from Dr. Abbott a communication to Science 

 on the 13th of April, 1883, suggesting that the failure to find 

 implements of glacial origin in Ohio might not detract from the 

 ■evidence which he adduced from the Delaware Valley, because, 

 he writes, very likely, "palaeolithic man was essentially a coast 

 ranger, and not a dweller in the interior of the continent. If 

 we associate these early people with the seal and walrus rather 

 than with the reindeer, and consider them essentially hunters 

 of these amphibious mammals rather than of the latter, it is 

 not incredible. I submit, that they did not wander so far inland 

 as Ohio." But it was not long before the expected evidence 

 came. First on November 4, 1885. Professor Putnam showed 



