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Not arrowheads, and older than you think
Collector traces artifacts of native Georgians over 10,000 years
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Bulloch County Historical Society members and guests inspect stone projectile points and other artifacts from guest speaker Joseph Sumners collection. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
In its last regular meeting of 2017, the Bulloch County Historical Society heard about the area’s Native American prehistory, and saw a collection of artifacts dating back thousands of years. Joseph C. Sumner Jr., a Mercer University-educated attorney from Wrightsville, also invests in timber land where preparations for planting pines turn up some of the artifacts. His collection includes some pottery fragments and other items, but hundreds of stone projectile points.
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