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position intermediate between the ancient level and the modern. 

 This level also contained a few sherds of very crude pottery, 

 quite distinct in material from that found on the surface. The 

 intermediate points although showing an advance in technique, 

 were related in material and form to those of the lowest level, 

 and taken in connection with the beginnings of pottery, may 

 indicate a stage of culture intermediate between that of the 

 lowest level and the modern Lenape. The presence of a large 

 number of bannerstones in the caches of the lowest level in 

 connection with ceremonial points of argillite, precludes any 

 such antiquity as that claimed for the "Dweller of the Yellow 

 Soil" by Volk, 1 although they fall in the same intermediate 

 period between glacial man and the modern Lenape, but 

 evidently at a later date. 



Our classification, based on the material excavated, begins 

 with argillite implements, and passes through an intermediate 

 period to the works of the modern Indian, whereas in the 

 classification of Volk argillite represent the intermediate period 

 between glacial man and the present Lenape. Our material 

 leaves the question of glacial man untouched, while offering a 

 possible link between argillite users and the modern Indian. 



Volk's description of the dweller of the yellow soil offers so 

 many points in common with our observations on the material 

 from the lowest level, that we quote it here. Dr. Volk's work, 

 extending over a period of twenty-two years, was characterized 

 by such extreme patience and care that we feel no question as 

 to its scientific accuracy. 



"The existence of the Dweller of the Yellow Soil who 

 lived on the drift underlying the black, during its progress of 

 making and after its final drying off, previous to the accumula- 

 tion of the black soil above by the decaying vegetation has 

 now been firmly established; this in spite of the fact that the 

 traces of his existence are far less numerous than those of the 

 black soil dweller following him. 



1 Volk claims that the traces of man in the yellow soil are pre-Indian. See Archae- 

 ology of the Delaware Valley, Ernest Volk, Papers of the Peabody Museum, Vol. V, p. 108. 



