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Photo Gallery: Steatite Boulder
Marker text:
This steatite boulder was found on the site of a prehistoric
quarry along Soapstone Ridge 8 miles south of Decatur. It shows the methods
of Indians in making stone bowls, with the first girdling of the stone to
remove workable cores. It is estimated to be at least 3,000 years old by
archaeologists studying such remains in central and north Georgia.
The soapstone quarry on River Road, DeKalb County, is the largest found by
archaeologists in Georgia.
044-1 Georgia Historical Commission 1953
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