BEAR MANDIBLE

 

    This perforated bear mandible (jaw) was found in the 1997 excavation season.  Similar artifacts have been reported for earlier (seventeenth and eighteenth century) sites in the Great Lakes region.  The Cater specimen is one of the latest known.  There function is not certain and the subject of some controversy.

 

 

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