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Nov 30, 2008 2:27 pm US/Central

Rochester Museum Displays 12,000-Year-Old Items

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) ― A new exhibit in Rochester features 12,000-year-old artifacts that were found in a southeastern Minnesota farm field.

The artifacts include 65 pieces of silicified sandstone used by native Americans. That includes a well-formed blade and 22 tool blanks from which sharp-edged stone flakes have been chipped off.

The artifacts were found 70 years ago in Eyota and were later donated to the Olmsted County History Center.

Karl Wolff, the center's curator, says the artifacts cache is one of about only 20 of its size in the country.

Experts think the artifacts were brought from central Wisconsin to Minnesota by the Paleo-Indians who were migrating.

The exhibit also includes two tusks from a woolly mammoth that were found in the 1970s in Stewartville.



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