Bradbury Brook

Bradbury Brook is an archeological procurement area (21ML42), located a few miles south of Mille Lacs Lake in east central Minnesota. 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 [cite web | last = Bakken | first = Ken | coauthors = Riaz Malik | title = Lithic Raw Material Resources in Minnesota | url = http://www.tc.umn.edu/~bakk0029/MinnLith/4.East.HTML | accessdate = 2006-12-08 ]

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. [cite web | Publisher = Minnesota Historical Society | title = Archaeology Collection| url = http://www.mnhs.org/collections/archaeology/arch.htm | accessdate = 2006-12-08 ] [cite web | last = Higginbottom | first = Daniel K. | Publisher = University of Minnesota | title = Projectile Points of Minnesota | url = http://www.tcinternet.net/users/cbailey/lithic1.html | accessdate = 2006-12-08 ]

See also

* [http://www.hometownlocator.com/DisplayCountyFeatures.cfm?FeatureType=stream&SCFIPS=27095 Mille Lacs County Streams]

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