. Bulletin. Ethnology. HOLJIESl ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES PART I 203 lodges in and about which the work was carried on. In the center is a sliallow depression, which was the fireplace of the Lodge Sites lodge (fig. 81). Around this are accunudations of fragments, flakes, partially worked rejects, and the hammerstones left b}' the workinen, the Avliole remaining seemingly undisturbed since the period of occupation. Outside of these circular clusters are heaps of chert masses just as they were brought from the quarry and deposited within reach of the workmen, arid in some cases flattish lu
. Bulletin. Ethnology. HOLJIESl ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES PART I 203 lodges in and about which the work was carried on. In the center is a sliallow depression, which was the fireplace of the Lodge Sites lodge (fig. 81). Around this are accunudations of fragments, flakes, partially worked rejects, and the hammerstones left b}' the workinen, the Avliole remaining seemingly undisturbed since the period of occupation. Outside of these circular clusters are heaps of chert masses just as they were brought from the quarry and deposited within reach of the workmen, arid in some cases flattish lumps of chert, probably used as seats or anvils, are surrounded by piles of refuse. Not only are these shop phenomena thus fresh and undisturbed, but in some instances the flint seems. Fig. so. I'lan of ]odg(> shop site showing central Are pit and circle of chert Mocks and shaping refuse. hardly to have changed color or to have suffered in the least from weathering or from tlie fires which must at times have swept the forest. The work of quarrying and shaping the stone corresponds in nearly every respect with that of the Flint Kidge and Arkansas quarries already described. Tlie ordinary and almost exclusive prod- uct of the shaping work was some form of blade, a The Shaped i>rod- ^^^^^^^ ^^^.^ intended in most cases at least to be sub- uct sequently elaborated into implements of more highly specialized type, as hoes, knives, and projectile points. A series of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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