APPENDIX A.' 

 MINES, QUARRIES, AND WORKSHOPS. 



I- Tlie following memoraiida of picliistoric Hint mines or quarries and 

 irorksbopji of aboriginal stone implements in the United States liave 

 >een compiled mostly from reports made by investigators in the held. 

 They are here brought together and published for convenience of the 

 student. 



MAINE. 



Mount Kiueo, on tlio eastern shore of Moosehead Lake, has furiiislied material for 

 nboriginal arrowpoiuts and spearheads for hundreds of niihjs <lo\vn the Athintic 

 |Coast. It is usually called Mount Kiueo llint, hut is really a porphyritic fclsito or 

 [rhyolite. 

 : ' NEW YORK. 



Erie County. — Extensive liiut-arrowpoint factories in the vicinity of Buffalo and 

 along the river shore; marked by the presence of flint and piles of chipped pieces. 

 Keported by Dr. A. L. Benedict, Buflalo. 



! Chautauqua County. — Some years ago, Mr. Williams, plowing a field on his farm, in 

 ihe town of Sheridan, turned up as much as two bushels of flint spalls or chips 

 and a number of arrowj)oints and spearheads. These were together, and led Mr. 

 Williams to snjipose that Indians made their tools there. Some of these implements 

 correspond in outline and material to those from Flint Kidge. Ohio. James She ward. - 



ilontijomenj ('onnli/. — Deposit of lliut airowpoiiits in the town of Amsterdam. 

 Described by 1*. M. Van Epps. ' 



NEW JERSEY. 



Alerrer I'onulij. — "Open-Air Workshops'' (chi[»s ofjaspc^r and flint) in Hamilton 

 Township.' 



"Open-Air Workshops" are treated at length by Dr. Abbott, and examples are 

 cited; one near Belvidere, New Jersej', and one in Hamilton 'I'ownship, Mercer 

 County, New .lersey, which was greatly elaborated by excavation and description. 

 The remains of human industry found in the <iuarries are thus classed by Dr. Abbott: 

 (1) Masses of jasper and altered mineral; (2) cores and remains of no further use; 

 (3) large flakes; (4) bloeked-ont and discarded specimens; (5) specimens nearly 

 finished and then discarded — the.se are of the arrowheads with point, stem, or barb 

 broken oft"; (6) chips and splinters of every size; (7) hammerstones of utilized peb- 

 bles, mostly with shallow dejiressions, one on each side; (8) flat-slab stones of small 

 size and traces of hammering on either side, probably used as lapstoncs — making in 

 nil about a thou.sand pieces. There was no trace of argillite used as a material. 



A second and third And in the same vicinity are described in the same paper 

 (p. 51H). 



> See p. 871. 



^Smithsouian Report, 1881, p. 644. 



'American Antiquarian, 1S8*I, III, p. .")7. 



•»C. ('. Abbott, Report Peabody Museum, XII, 18S0, pp. .-)08-5ir). 



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