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the upper strata. 1 Many fire-cracked stones marked the 

 vicinity of the fire pits, but there were no other signs of cooking. 



Three pieces of pigment were found in the yellow soil, 

 two of red ochre and one which left a greenish stain. Several 

 specimens in the caches were coated with red paint which 

 came off in a fine scale when they were exposed to the air. 

 The red stain, however, persisted on several specimens, notably 

 the painted fossils found in caches. 



Only fragments of bone were found, and these were 

 always associated with two point caches, and evidently repre- 

 sented offerings rather than food. They were so badly broken 

 and decayed as to make identification difficult, but a paleon- 

 tologist to whom they were shown recognized in one the leg 

 bone of a wild turkey and thought the others belonged to either 

 deer or bear. 



The resemblance of the implements figured by Volk, 

 Plate CXVIII, to the points from our lowest level (see Plate 

 XVII) is striking. Compare also the specimen figured in 

 Plate CXIX with the blunt pear-shaped axe in Plate XVIII, 

 A (found in cache B 5). 



A number of chipped rejects, similar to those figured by 

 Volk in Plate CXVI were scattered in the yellow soil, but in 

 the presence of so much better material they are not described 

 here. 



In conclusion, the material from our lowest and inter- 

 mediate levels agrees with that of Volk's Dweller of the Yellow 

 Soil in geological position, but appears to belong to a later 

 period within that time. 



The lower village revealed by Mercer's excavation at 

 Lower Black's Eddy, 2 where he found two stages of occupancy, 

 also offers interesting comparisons with our types from the 

 lowest level. The "fish spear" type, seen in Fig. 28, page 29, 



1 The pits described by Volk were of two kinds; those which extended to the surface 

 and those which were entirely within the yellow layer. 



2 The Antiquity of Man in the Delaware Valley and the Eastern United States, Henry 

 C. Mercer. Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, Vol. VI, 1897. 



