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Walk on Falmouth beach yields piece of human history

Tool may date back 2 millennia

Specialists said the diamond-shaped stone that Michelle Blevins and Susan Hayden found is at least 2,000 years old. Specialists said the diamond-shaped stone that Michelle Blevins and Susan Hayden found is at least 2,000 years old. (PETER HAYDEN)
By Jonnelle Marte
Globe Correspondent / July 16, 2008

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Thousands of years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth, Native Americans hunted and fished with handmade spears, knives, and arrows carved out of rugged stone. (Full article: 508 words)

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