Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . FACE OF THE TRENCH AT THE SEVENTYSEVENTH FOOT, SHOWING POCKETS OFARTIFICIAL REFUSE p^. li^ ..-/:??! ? Ik /..,i HOLMES] PROCESSES OF SHAPING 27 result being reached by striking one stone against another of properrelative durability. The several acts are known as battering, bruising,and i)ecking, the latter term being in common use for the act by which8ha])ing was mostly accomplished. Materials suitable for shaping bythis process are plentiful and widely distributed. They occur in thetidewater country wher
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . FACE OF THE TRENCH AT THE SEVENTYSEVENTH FOOT, SHOWING POCKETS OFARTIFICIAL REFUSE p^. li^ ..-/:??! ? Ik /..,i HOLMES] PROCESSES OF SHAPING 27 result being reached by striking one stone against another of properrelative durability. The several acts are known as battering, bruising,and i)ecking, the latter term being in common use for the act by which8ha])ing was mostly accomplished. Materials suitable for shaping bythis process are plentiful and widely distributed. They occur in thetidewater country wherever fiakable stones abound, but the most favor-able localities, so far as observed, are along the river banks about thehead of tidewater. Yillagesites located on the lower terraces about\^ashington and (ieorgetown furnish many specimens illustrating fail-ures in all stages of the shaping of celts, grooved axes, pestles, andceremonial articles from bowlders of diorite and various of the denservarieties of crystalline metamorphic rocks. An examination of certaininhabited sites farther np the river, and in various parts of the high-land, develops the fact that extens
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