Speaker: Dr. Nigel Brush is a 1969 graduate of West Holmes High School and has a PhD in anthropology from UCLA. Since 1982, he has been conducting archaeological and geologic fieldwork in Holmws, Wayne and Coshocton counties, including excavations at: 2 mastodon sites, 6 Late Prehistoric village sites in the Walhonding Valley (AD 1000-1700), and 30 rock shelters in Killbuck Valley (12,000 BC-AD 1700).
Nigel is Professor Emeritus of Geology at Ashland University and an Affiliated Scholar in the Archoeology Program and Department of Anthropology & Sociology at the College of Wooster.
Hosts: County Line Historical Society of Wayne/Holmes
Parking: Across the street from the church
No Admission Fee and Open to the Public
Beginning when the first European colonists arrived in Wayne County in the 1700s, we will journey back in time through the Late Prehistoric, Woodland, Archaic, and Paleo-Indian periods to the Ice Age some 14,000 years ago. After this, we will move back into geologic time that is measured in millions of years. As we go ever deeper into the past, we will find that Wayne County was previously an Arctic tundra, then a tropical forest, then a coastal community, then buried beneath the sea, and finally, lifted above the sea in a tall mountain range. Rocks being carried into Wayne County by streams, glaciers or falling from the sky, can take us back in time even further, several billion years, to the formation of the earth and the solar system. Scientists don’t need to travel great distances to see the world. Instead, they can stay at home and by traveling through time, watch the world come to them through studying the isotopes, minerals, and fossils in the rock record of earth's history. God is proud of His creation and has given us this detailed record so we can better understand how He created the earth and living organisms for us.
