previous authors saw the Thruston Tablet as a record of historical events: an “important treaty … or tribal event” (Thruston 1890:91), a “war between the prehistoric Indians at Castalian Springs and some other band” (Myer 1928:100), a “historical event of considerable importance” (Parker 1949:16), and last, but not least, a battle between local Indians and marauding Vikings (Verrill and Keeler 1961).
