Some Pre-History
Aug 25, 1960
Lynch Herald Enterprise

 In the summer of 1936 Earl H. Bell, Anthropologist and group of University of Nebraska students unearthed a privitive Nebraska City beneath shifing sands and an ancient desert whick once existed in Boyd County.
 The location of the prehistoric city was north west from town, short distance from our High School. It shows an agricultural people lived here 500 years ago, or perhaps thousands of years agon.
 Prior to this discovery the scientists had thought that now agricltural people had lived in Nebraska more that 500 year ago.
 Dr. Bell gives as the reason for the location of this early civilization the hunting grounds provided by the highlands on the north and the productivity of the lowlands irrigated by springs from the hills along the Ponca Creek. He named this privitive city the Nebraska Capital.
 Which other city of Nebraska and maybe of all of America, can boast a continuation of such an old human settlement? At least far away in prehistoric times here was some Troy of that time Nebraska territory, with several strata of differnt cultures buried beneath another.
 This digging at Lynch was the first time that Northeast Nebraska was worked by archelogists and this work was undertaken after reports from Geroge Wilcox, former Superintendent of Lynch Schools, stated that countless arrowheads were on top of the hills there.
 This digging showed three trata of anceint culture. The first one showed up near the surface of the shil extending down as much as a foot below the ground.
 The second civilzation appeared as much as five feet below the ground. The third and most ancient is a foot or more below this second one. The third stratus produced only flints and no pottery or other remnants which might inicate a more advanced people.
 The trenches around this ancient city ranged from 2 to 9 feet in depth and they have on top extending down finve feet to a sandy soil belived blown in here from the west during centrues of desert climate. Below this top layer is a black and hard packed colored soil on which these ancient people trod. The top 5 feet of sandy soil indicated the great age of these early inhapitants.
 Among valuable remains uncoverd were: abundant variety of vegetables, including cabonized ears of corn, beans and squash; pottery, pieces large enough  to hold more than a half of bushel of produce and early man-made tools. The site also contained a type of house hitherto unknown. These early people also killed and ate buffalo, deer and elk an were clearly and agricultural people.