TRACES OF GLACIAL MAN IN OHIO. l6l 



vation of an inexpert collector at all in questions where there is 

 no other well-established body of evidence with which to asso- 

 ciate it. The function of such data does not extend legitimately 

 beyond the confirming of testimony already well verified. 



I present in the accompanying plate examples of the finds 

 from the gravel talus and from the shops above. They correspond 

 very closely in material and appearance with the Newcomers- 

 town specimen, as will be apparent from an examination of the 

 plate. The figures are presented without identification in order 

 that the student may, by an effort to distinguish them, convince 

 himself of the similarity of the supposed paleolith to the quarry- 

 shop rejects of the region. I am not satisfied with the drawing 

 of the former specimen which is a copy, the best that could be 

 made, of the cut published in " Man and the Glacial Period." I 

 desired to have a new drawing direct from the specimens, but a 

 request looking to that end, made to Professor Wright, met with 

 no response. 



The four quarry -shop failures here shown are not rare finds 

 with unusually implement -like features. They are everyday 

 rejects, and four hundred could be presented as readily as four. 



Summing up the evidence of gravel man in Ohio, assembling 

 all of the finds of several earnest workers these many years — 

 the fulfillment of Professor Wright's prophecy — we have to con- 

 sider three specimens only. The finding of these objects seems 

 ordinarily well attested, and there is not the least hint of decep- 

 tion or partial withholding of details of discovery. The speci- 

 men found by Dr. Metz in his cistern was eight feet deep, and 

 on, or in, the surface of the gravel bed beneath eight feet of silt 

 that may or may not be glacial. Eight feet is not a great depth, 

 however, and we are justified, so long as the specimen stands 

 alone, in expressing our fears that it might, through some 

 unsuspected disturbance of the soil, artificial or natural, have been 

 introduced or covered up to this depth at some date in the long 

 period separating the ice age from the present. A number of 

 agencies known to disturb the soil to considerable depths, are 

 referred to in my paper on early man in Minnesota, in the April 



