TRACES OF GLACIAL MAN IN OHIO. 



Trenton and the Delaware Valley no longer have exclusive 

 claims to reputed evidences of glacial man. For a number of 

 years reports have come from the West of finds of implements 

 in ice-age drift. Miss Babbitt in Minnesota, Cresson in Indiana 

 and Metz and Mills in Ohio, have in turn announced the discovery 

 of specimens of these rare and precious mementos of antiquity. 

 I have already, in papers published in The Journal of 

 Geology and in the American Geologist, raised questions as to the 

 proper interpretation of the finds in Trenton and at Little Falls, 

 Minnesota. A brief study of the Ohio finds may now be under- 

 taken with a view of presenting and weighing such doubts as 

 may have arisen with respect to the value of the evidence furn- 

 ished by them. I have endeavored in this, as in the other cases, to 

 keep well within the bounds of legitimate criticism, desiring to 

 allow all that can be justly claimed for the evidence presented 

 in support of the theory of a glacial paleolithic man in America, 

 In dealing with this subject, however, I have found it necessary 

 to keep in mind the fact that the evidence to be considered has 

 been collected and presented by advocates of the paleolithic 

 theory who have welcomed finds without critical scrutiny, and 

 have reached and presented conclusions as much because they 

 were in the line of the expected and desired, as because they were 

 actually susceptible of demonstration. The advocates of the 

 theory have naturally taken every opportunity to emphasize the 

 importance of the evidence collected as viewed from their own 

 standpoint. To insure correct final judgment it is necessary that 

 other points of view be taken and that the evidence be subjected 

 to every possible test. I shall confine myself to fields in which I 

 h-ave made personal and most careful observations. I do not 

 desire to secure the acceptance as final of any particular view with 

 respect to the history of early man in America. I am not intro- 



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