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tone Indian stone work, and to identify and date the hundreds of artifacts brought in.
Perhaps the oldest item was an 8,000year-old spear point, but there were many others identified as being between 6,000 and 7,500 years old.
The earliest sites in Rappahannock county were on the eastern flanks of the Blue Ridge. Later migrations led Virginia’s first residents down toward the broad flood plains.
“The climate was much cooler in those days immediately following the last Ice Age,” said Miss Nash, “and hunting was more important than agriculture.”
“Our local Indians were highly intelligent persons,” Miss Nash continued. “Their technology was sufficiently far adSee
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