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"The implements of the yellow drift man must, however, 

 have been fairly numerous judging from the numbers of 

 specimens and from the many chips scattered throughout the 

 drift. These implements were of two or three distinct types: 

 the spear-head, and possibly the arrow-head, the implements 

 with a jagged cutting edge, and the drill-like specimen found 

 with one of the heaps of human bones. The material of these 

 was always argillite. 



"The pits found at different depths with the charcoal 

 and the pebbles broken by fire indicate that cooking was 

 done. 



"The finding of pieces of pigment in the undisturbed 

 stratum of coarse whitish sand was of more than ordinary 

 interest as such a discovery is thus far unique for this 

 locality. 



"The skeletons found show that these people were strongly 

 built; the skulls and other bones were so far decomposed as 

 to make it impossible to gather any further information. 



"The habitation of this Dweller of the Yellow Soil has 

 given him the name of the Man of the Intermediate Period, 

 and his use of argillite in the manufacture of his implements 

 gives him that of the Argillite man." 1 



Beginning with the implements from the lowest level, 

 our excavation furnished not only the types of points described 

 by Volk, but a number of others, which are described later in 

 detail. This diversity of types, in connection with the finely 

 worked bannerstones, indicates that the culture of argillite 

 users in this locality had become fairly well specialized. 



Fire pits of varying size were also found at the lowest 

 level, the largest marking the ceremonial center around which 

 the caches had been deposited. Smaller pits, outside the 

 circle of caches, where the soil furnished scattered implements, 

 may have marked the camp. In every case these pits extended 

 down into the white sand and were in no way connected with 



1 Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, Ernest Volk, Papers of the Peabody Museum, 

 Vol. V, 1911, pp. 125-126. 



