Bradbury Brook

Bradbury Brook (Smithsonian trinomial: 21ML42) is an archaeological procurement area located a few miles south of Mille Lacs Lake in east central Minnesota, United States. Here Late Paleoindian inhabitants gathered cobbles of siltstone from a streambed or directly from glacial drift. A partially intact stone workshop at this site was dated to 7212 +/- 75 BCE (before common era). The siltstone was used to produce a variety of tools, including a stemmed point, other bifaces, keeled scrapers, blades and chipped stone adzes. The workshop also contained several fragmented anvilstones and an abundant sample of hammerstones of various sizes[1]

Archaeologists working at the site found more than 125,000 artifacts, including stone tools, dating to 7212 BCE, making it the earliest dated excavated site in Minnesota.[2][3]

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References
  1. Bakken, Ken; Riaz Malik. "Lithic Raw Material Resources in Minnesota". Retrieved 2006-12-08.
  2. "Archaeology Collection". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 2006-12-08.
  3. Higginbottom, Daniel K. "Projectile Points of Minnesota". University of Minnesota. Archived from the original on 2000-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-08.

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