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An Implement of Elephant Bone from Manitoba

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Douglas Leechman
Douglas Leechman*
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National Museum, Ottawa, Canada
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On the 11th of September, 1948, a farmer was ploughing on his farm near Lac du Bonnet, roughly fifty miles northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba. His ploughshare turned up a stone hammer and at the same time laid bare an object which, at first, he took for a piece of wood or a potato, because of its size, shape, and colour. A moment later he realized that no potato could be there, and, investigating further, discovered that the object was the end of a large bone which had been artificially shaped.

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American Antiquity , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , October 1950 , pp. 157 - 160
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1950

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