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Show Main Indians Site Ancie By DONALD J. FREDERICK A paleo-Indian site almost 11,000 years old, complete with a hearth and thousands of stone tools, has been excavated exca-vated in a dry lake bed in western west-ern Maine. DISCOVERY of a nearby killing ground where animals were speared by the Indians makes the site on remote Azis-cohos Azis-cohos Lake unique in the East, according to archeologist Michael Gramly of the Maine State Museum, who directed the excavation. "Similar paleo-Indian habitations habi-tations have been found in the East, but they've never been accompanied by a killing ground," he explained. THE HUNTING area yielded four complete fluted or grooved spear points "in mint-sharp mint-sharp condition" and tip sections sec-tions of six more. The intrepid hunters built their first fires in the area in the shadow of a waning ice age. Most of the great ice sheets had retreated to cer da 1 1 ,000 years ago scattered remnants, lingered in the I around the site. GRAMLY pointe the climate at the high encampment,! even today by wild try, was compara weather encounter to 8,000 feet in the; similar mountainoti Alaska. |
