Native people’s stone tools Topsham Maine library topic Aug. 21

TOPSHAM — Geologist Mark Brockmann will discuss the archaeological, geological, physical properties and occurrence of 35 types of lithic tools used by New England-based Native Peoples at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21, at the Topsham Public Library, 25 Foreside Road.

Brockmann will focus on those items used in the Kennebec Valley area of Maine. Replicas of these tools will be on display.
Everyone is welcome to bring in personal specimens for identification and discussion.
Brockmann earned a master’s degree in geology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and has travelled throughout the Northeastern U.S., working as an environmental, geotechnical and educational geologist. In the early 1990s, Brockmann purchased property along a glacial esker in Chesterville and built a house in 1995. This is now the location of his library/office/lab with lithological and mineralogical collections.
The program is open to the public. For more information, call Topsham Public Library, 207-725-1727 or visit www.topshamlibrary.org.