Bradbury Brook
archaeological site in Mille Lacs County, United States of America
Bradbury Brook is a small stream in Central Minnesota in the United States. It is a tributary of the Rum River, which drains into the Mississippi.
It also the name of an archaeological procurement area (Smithsonian trinomial: 21ML42) located a few miles south of Mille Lacs Lake along its namesake. Late Paleoindian inhabitants gathered cobbles of siltstone from a streambed or directly from glacial drift. A partially intact stone workshop at this site was dated to 7212 +/- 75 BCE. The siltstone was used to produce a variety of tools, including a stemmed point, other bifaces, keeled scrapers, blades and chipped stone adzes. The workshop also contained several fragmented anvilstones and an abundant sample of hammerstones of various sizes.
Archaeologists working at the site found more than 125,000 artifacts, including stone tools, dating to 7212 BCE, making it the earliest dated excavated site in Minnesota.
“Bradbury Brook” enters the record as archaeological site in Mille Lacs County, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bradbury, Brook and archaeological can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4954414. Authority coordinates are 45.998, -93.660. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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