876 ANTHROPOLOGY. 



diameter on an elevated spot § of a mile from any stream. I found noth- 

 ing in this but a small piece of galena. 



No. 4, on the farm of George Brown, 3 miles southwest of Milroy, on an 

 elevation A mile from a large spring. This is different in structure from 

 any of the others. It is 40 feet across and 7 feet high. Directly in the 

 center and bottom of it was a small mound 10 feet in diameter and 3 feet 

 high, of hard red clay, so hard as to be difficult to dig with a mattock. 

 All over this was a layer of charcoal 2 inches thick, yet so perfect that 

 I could easily distinguish the oak, ash, and poplar wood from which it 

 had been burned. Over this was a stratum of ashes mixed with clay, 

 and the remainder was yellow clay. Near the bottom was a skeleton 

 lying with its feet towards the west (all the others lay in the opposite 

 direction). On one wrist were two copper bracelets made by rolling 

 up sheet copper, and close by, a bear's claw, probably an ornament. 

 The right forearm was absent. Though this skeleton crumbled and 

 could not be saved, the others were gotten out in a nearly perfect 

 condition. Nothing strange about them except the peculiar bottle- 

 shaped teeth, especially the bicuspid and molars, and the fact that the 

 larger of the two bicuspids on both upper and lower jaws came first, 

 coni dry to the fact in the white and modern Indian races. From the 

 appearance of the frontal bone they evidently possessed a fair degree of 

 intelligence. 



1 have opened a number of other mounds, but they are all about the 

 same, and I found nothing in them. 



PRIMITIVE MANUFACTURE OF SPEAR AND ARROW POINTS ALONG THE LINE 

 OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER. 



By Charles C. Jones, Jr., of Augusta, Ga. 



In selecting sites for the manufacture of arrow and spear points, respect 

 was had to the convenience of the localities. Ready access to the raw 

 material and to food and water, and the physical advantages offered 

 for transporting their implements, when manufactured, entered largely 

 into the calculations of the primitive artificers and determined their par- 

 t icular fields of operation. That such is the fact, may be readily inferred 

 from the presence of extensive and numerous open-air workshops along 

 the line of the Savannah River, and especially that portion of it bordering 

 the counties of Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln, and Elbert, in Georgia, 

 and the counties in South Carolina lying opposite. Here mnky quartz, 

 chert, and some varieties of jasper abound. The substance from which 

 the implements were to be fashioned was at hand, and in quantities 

 practically inexhaustible. The Savannah River, with its numerous trib- 

 utaries, w;is a never failing storehouse of food. Its islands and banks, 

 adjacent forests, and dependent swamps afforded ample cover for 

 game of various sorts. At that early period the woods and waters were 



