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From the 10/15/06 Cleveland Plain Dealer:

 

 

Archaeology site near Sandusky revealing stories

Sunday, October 15, 2006

John Mangels

THE (CLEVELAND) PLAIN DEALER

 

CLEVELAND — The things they cared about went with them to the grave.

 

A spear point, chipped from flint, its beveled edges still sharp and true. A smooth, greenish piece of slate, gracefully carved to resemble a bird. The jaw of a dog, or maybe a wolf. And a limestone pipe, once redolent of tobacco or bark, intentionally smashed to bits and placed among the bones, as if to signify its owner’s life was over.

 

For the past three summers, a team of Cleveland Museum of Natural History archaeologists and volunteers has teased the secrets of what is called the Danbury site from its silty clay soil in Danbury Township on the Ottawa County peninsula north of Sandusky...

 

 

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/10/15/20061015-B6-00.html

 

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