Primitive Man in MichiganThe University, 1925 - 194 страници |
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Algonquian Alpena County American ancient animals arrow artifacts Banded slate banner stones bark Bird-stone bones bored canoe celts ceremonials Chippewa collectors common copper corn culture area Detroit distinctive district drill earth earthworks Eaton County edge embankment evidence feet Figure flint forts garden beds gorgets Grand Rapids Grand River graves groove ground hatchets head holes human hundred hunting Huron implements inclosures Indians inventions Iroquois Isabella County Kalamazoo Kent County Kent Scientific Museum knives Lake Superior large number length 4 inches located Macomb County Marine shell material medicine Michi migration miles Missaukee County mounds native Ogemaw County Ohio original ornaments Peninsula perforated pestles pieces pipes pits places PLATE pottery primitive probably referred relics reported Rifle River Saginaw Bay says shape shore side skulls sometimes spear specimens Stone Age tion Township trails trephining tribes usually village Washtenaw County wild York
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Страница 60 - Supplemental, however, to these open and in time of war obviously dangerous routes, were paths or trails, many of them originally made by the tracks of deer or buffalo in their seasonal migrations between feeding grounds or in search of water or salt licks. The constant passing over the same path year after year and generation after generation often so packed the soil that in places, especially on hillsides, the paths are still traceable by depressions in the ground or by the absence of or the difference...
Страница 65 - ... them from the incursions of their enemies. Their cabins are very quickly set up; they plant their poles, which are joined at the top, and cover them with large sheets of bark. The fire is made in the middle of the cabin ; they spread all around it mats of rushes, upon which they sit during the day and take their rest during the night.
Страница 52 - In the County of Wayne, on the north bank of the Detroit River, is a fort of the circular or elliptical kind,' with an embankment two or three feet in height and compassing, perhaps, one acre. On the east side, as one approaches the fort, there are two parallel embankments of earth, within a few feet of each other, rising four or five feet and crossing the swamp in a direct line toward the fort.
Страница 75 - The Adirondacks formerly lived three-hundred Miles above Trois Rivieres, where now the Utawawas are situated ; at that Time they employ 'd themselves wholly in Hunting, and the Five Nations made planting of Corn their Business. By this Means they became useful to each other, by exchanging Corn for Venison. The Adirondacks, however, valued themselves, as delighting in a more manly Employment, and despised the Five Nations, in following Business, which they thought only fit for Women.
Страница iii - NOTE The Michigan Handbook Series has been initiated for the purpose of presenting summaries of the botany, zoology, anthropology and geology of the state for the use of teachers, students and others interested in the natural sciences. The numbers are not to be technical contributions nor popular accounts, but rather of the nature of elementary reference books and introductions to the study of individual groups and sciences, as these are represented in Michigan.
Страница 9 - Also, there is a good deal of evidence to indicate that the accumulation or growth of culture reaches a stage where certain inventions if not inevitable are certainly to a high degree probable, given a certain level of mental ability.
Страница 87 - ... they seem merely to have been buried in the ground or hidden among rocks. The largest deposit recorded contained upward of 8,000 flint disks (Moorehead), a few exceed 5,000, while those containing a smaller number are very numerous. It is probable that many of these caches of flaked stones are accumulations of incipient implements roughed out at the quarries and carried away, for further specialization and use.
Страница iii - PRIMITIVE MAN IN MICHIGAN. By WB Hinsdale. Michigan Handbook Series, No. 1. Published by the University of Michigan, 1925, pp. 195. Price, paper covers $1.50; board covers, $2.00. This volume initiates the Michigan Handbook Series, devoted to presenting "summaries of the botany, zoology, anthropology and geology of the state for the use of teachers, students and others interested in the natural sciences," according to a prefatory note by Dr.
Страница 52 - In Bruce Township, in Macomb County, on the north fork of the Clinton, are several . . . with ditch on the outside and including from two to ten acres, with entrances which evidently were gateways and a mound on the inside opposite each entrance." He says, further, that near the mouth of the Clinton River there were ancient works, representing a fortress, similar to those in Ohio and Indiana. Blois speaks of similar banks of earth near the village of Marshall, Calhoun County, and of others in Kalamazoo...
Страница viii - Illinois has just appropriated $50,000 for the purchase of the site of the Cahokia group of mounds at East St. Louis.