. Archaeologia Nova Caesarea. Fig. II. Sandstone Hoe, perforated, of Delaware Indians. A rareform. until scarcely traceable, have all the appearance of an at-tempt at ornamentation of the stone or to depict some specialobject. But all is as yet too indefinite to warrant any con-clusion being drawn. It is not likely this argillite man wasdevoid of all art, but then we are dealing with the almost 73 primitive humanity of thousands of years , and havescarcely a foothold in any direction save that of the singlefact of his one-time existence. Furthermore, as has beenpointed out by many authors,
. Archaeologia Nova Caesarea. Fig. II. Sandstone Hoe, perforated, of Delaware Indians. A rareform. until scarcely traceable, have all the appearance of an at-tempt at ornamentation of the stone or to depict some specialobject. But all is as yet too indefinite to warrant any con-clusion being drawn. It is not likely this argillite man wasdevoid of all art, but then we are dealing with the almost 73 primitive humanity of thousands of years , and havescarcely a foothold in any direction save that of the singlefact of his one-time existence. Furthermore, as has beenpointed out by many authors, time and time again, all thestone implements that are now found are not necessarilyreferrible to the historic Indian. As well assert that all. Fig. 12. Argillite Hoe of Delaware Indian. Simplest form of thisimplement. Colonial furniture and utensils still in New Jersey are ofEnglish origin, and none Dutch or Swedish, when we doknow that these people antedate by more than half a cen-tury the Engli^ in the Delaware valley. It is, I claim, something more than reasonable conjecture,more than specious argumentation, that the argillite objects, 74 considered under all the conditions of their occurrence, areolder as a class than those of jasper and quartz, which weknow were fashioned by the Indians. It is not necessary,as has been done, to declare them, if older, to be simply theearlier workmanship of the Indian after his reaching theregion. On the contrary, I claim this difference in agemeans a difference in origin, and that enough has been de-termined of the river valley as a whole, and of the eastwardextension of the land to the sea, to assert with confidencethat the argillite man was not a potter, or, if the invadingLenape shar
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