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Article: A WHALE OF A STORY LONG BEFORE CAPTAIN AHAB, NATIVE AMERICANS IN BOSTON MAY HAVE HUNTED THEIR OWN LEVIATHAN

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May 23, 2000
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QUINCY - The tools had been carefully placed in a shallow pit at least 1,600 years ago - 256 stone knives, arrowheads, spear points, and woodworking tools discovered by chance as a construction crew built a playground behind Wollaston Beach in Quincy last July.

Finding Native American artifacts on the edge of Quincy Bay is not so rare - in Pilgrim times, the chief of the Moswetusets held court there - but these were extraordinary. They included a canoe-building tool in the shape of a whale, a stone weight and a pendant resembling whale's tails, and a 13-inch-long stone blade big enough to strip the flesh from a very large animal.

Whoever placed the artifacts on this low rise did so ...

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