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help visitors understand life in prehistoric times. During the summer, visitors can watch archelogists work in excavations.
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Cache of prehistoric weapons on Trappist Monastery grounds near Berryville in Clarke County.
“How art the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished."—The Bible
The warriors of 10,000 years ago are gone but their sfapons, relics of man’s prehistoric past, remain.
Three years ago, Brother James Sommers, historian, archaeologist and bread maker at Holy Cross Monastery, stumbled over a piece of stone that turned him from a Civil War buff to a delver into prehistory. The find also resulted in the registry of his first 70-acre exploratory site with the Virginia Research Center for Archeology.
The banks of tha Shenandoah River were as much of an attraction in 8,600 B.C. as they are today, judging by the weapons and tools of Paleo-Indians found there. The monastery’s collection of chipped stones fashioned by the nomadic hunters and warriors range from sharp pointed rocks used as weapons to tools audl as hammers, scrapers and drills.
Only a few of the points displayed at the monastery are arrow heads since the bow and arrow only came into use about the time of Christ. Before that, the favorite weapon for taking down an enemy or a mammoth appears to have been an atlatl, a pointed stone tied to a short stick wg|ghted for throwing. .1^. .
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