We leave this back page to a continuing series of quotes from Henry David Thoreau, paired with a Concord scene.
"There is scarcely a square rod of sand exposed...but you may find on it the stone arrowheads of an extinct race. Far back as that time seems when men went armed with bows and pointed stones here, yet so numerous are the signs of it. The finer particles of sand are blown away and the arrow-point remains. The race is as clean gone -- from here -- as this sand is clean swept by the wind. Such are our antiquities." (Journal, October 22, 1857)
According to Peter Waksman, a Concord resident with a passion for prehistory, "this is stemmed point of a style called 'Stark' or
'Merrimac' coming from the Middle Archaic which was
from 3 to 5 thousand years ago. Many different types
of peoples passed through Concord in that period. The
makers of these stemmed points probably came from the
coast where similar arrowheads are associated with
deep-water fishing and the North Atlantic."
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