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almost any quarry-shop site. The pick-like object from Love- 

 land is somewhat unique, and thus has a certain interest of its 

 own, independent of the manner of its finding. At best, how- 

 ever, it was probably not a finished implement at all and there is 

 strong evidence that it has never been used. It may not have 

 more than a remote resemblance to any tool ever employed by 

 the occupants of the valley. The Newconferstown object 

 appears to have a marked resemblance to certain foreign imple- 

 ments, but the Tuscarawas valley flint -shops furnish many other 

 specimens whose analogies are nearly if not quite as close. 



These specimens constitute the Ohio evidence. There is 

 nothing more, for it would be a great mistake to present surface 

 finds as " paleoliths " or as gravel art, no matter how close their 

 resemblance to these or to European forms. It is safest to 

 assign all to the historic Indian save those obtained and proved 

 to have been obtained from the gravels in place. 



These three specimens furnish the most satisfactory proofs, 

 so far collected, that a glacial, paleolithic man inhabited the 

 Ohio valley, and upon the evidence of these three slightly shaped 

 stones, obtained from isolated localities, it has been proposed to 

 carry the history of man back some thousands of years farther 

 than can be done by any other means yet discovered. 



No careful student will venture to say that the evidence 

 furnished by the three specimens is satisfactory and conclusive. 

 The finds are not demonstrably implements but have the char- 

 acteristics rather of rejects of manufacture. Their employment 

 as evidence of 2. paleolithic stage of culture serves only to empha- 

 size the utter inadequacy of the available proofs on that point. 



Considering the meagre and unsafe nature of these proofs, 

 there seems little doubt that a glacial man for the Ohio valley 

 has been somewhat prematurely announced and unduly paraded. 



W. H. Holmes. 



