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Reipids woman digs classSTEVKNS POINT - Attoday's price of copper, a person might '.irderstrmd why Mrs. Naomi Russell. Ti) 5thAvc. N., n student at theL n i v c r s i t y of Wlsconsin-Point. is so en-aboui her par-iii a group that a piece of thefor all the ex-t, however, is for the sake cf science.What tier student group found m:,y provide proof positive oi a civilization in Portage- 0».i*i;y dating from 5,COO years before Chris-, or in terms used by -ir cheologkthe Archn Period.Naorv is o junior socln’cg;. and ai-.itnipology major a. UW-Stc-vvr*: Point.At a dig site in Jordan Park, seven;! miles c-as: of cam p ii r’.io spot led the copper object as Pro?, rohnMoore was nliovclinj* dirt icto a screening process.Alter close investigation, the oV'-—. was identified as the point of some kind oi weapon. It had been crudely socketed to fit into a spear.I he student aicheoiogkSts ;-I‘0 foilivl a semper believed :o he c the same period when the inhabitants uf this -.vi-n: hunters ant who traversed a wide area and yiobably brought the copper weapon from mines in the '•■•'.per Peninsula o: :.;‘chljn.Moer? said lie- is quite• -jTiii.'.ut the materials are ..ora the Arclw'c Period, not* :i5\ .ecatiso their d-scrip-: cns .inds ?n::t that er.r n r.’ r digs i:i n.hr.r regions. **.ik i.ei.at -o of a skeletonhat c*. .klentnlly was •.m.c-cinh-in Stevens Poir.y a couple oi years ago. iV-e skeleton, after htdng in Mcd-.son. wasiMva.od a-; save ml thousand ; wars old. It still had traces i f red cclire painted on it.w.s a custom in the Archaic Period. in those -'■r’l-vs. in:dies of ;'/Cr.sO'is who • lied were exposed to ti.; elei.tents until the iltsit was gone, then tile situli wo.; painted with the ochre prior to the burial rite.Moore's student team also .eur.d numerous pieces ot try. soma oi which have beer, pieced xgc-itvjr. flies*:recem Woodland period when local Inhabitants h:s.s and actually sar.it- agriculture.; ;-np: M cjvilixaiioja. the s.udcms found a drill, r..;r.:c-raus pro-actile point?, anil knives in adcition co the /.at Wry.Aiso unearthed were several round clay objects .Moore believes weretiiot originated sr. Europe — ■turhp.ps :T was started by eariy Native Antericaos, he mused.The students took or.e day away from their own project ro visit a. group iror.i UW-Orr.kosh Involved In a dig at Silver Mound near Hixton. The Pointers, in walking through an open field near the site, uncovered about 114 artifacts in about 45 minutes from the Paleo-Tndian Period o« nearly 10.C00 years ago. They acquired many easily iditntifiable weapons and tools in the short trio which will be added to the UW - SP collect) tin.
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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jul 27, 1974
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