llarnan Jielicti in the Drift of Ohio. — Claypole. 313 
•elsewhere save in single or sporadic instances? To this 
question there are two possible answers. In the first place, 
granting that man resided in Ohio in late glacial days, there 
were doubtless some spots more frequented than others just 
as we find certain spots now, such as the neighborhood of 
springs and streams, camping grounds, etc., in which flint and 
■other weapons may be gathered abundantly whereas over the 
rest of the state they are met with far less frequentl3\ Sec- 
ondly, there are very few places where any one has taken the 
trouble to look for and save such things and record them 
Avhen they were found. It is impossible to know how many 
specimens may even now be, as these were for years, in the 
hands of collectors who fail to realize the important evidence 
which they are able to afford on the subject of early man. 
2. A second objection that will be felt and doubtless pressed 
by some anthropologists may be drawn from the nature of the 
weapons. They are neolithic in pattern whereas an opinion 
is somewhat prevalent that implements found in such circum- 
stances should be of palaeolithic type; at least such a conclu- 
sion may fairly be drawn from much that has been written 
on the subject. But this opinion can scarcely be well founded. 
In Europe where later glacial, interglacial, and possibly pre- 
glacial relics of man are more or less recognized the first men- 
tioned are not palaeolithic. This character belongs strictly to 
those of the second and third eras. All such are paheolithic and 
betray by their pattern an ancient origin. We should antici- 
pate similar results here and the facts above given are in ac- 
cord with this view. These implements bear every trace of 
comparatively recent date and thej' occur mixed in the clay 
and gravel deposits of the melting ice-sheet. The evidence of 
tl)eir entombment proves that they belong to the closing 3^ears 
of the glacial era — at the least their inclusion in their present 
matrix is of that date. In Europe neolithic man followed the 
Ice age, perhaps after a certain interval, perhaps immediately, 
and a broad and dee]) gulf separates him from his paheolithic 
ancestors. 
Secondly, this late date corresponds well with the results 
of investigation into tiie time of the disappearance of the 
ice. Most of the data attainable will not allow more than 
about 10,000 years as the interval that has elapsed between 
that epoch and the present time. 
