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the presence of small fireplaces which had not been dug beneath the 

 living surface and were unaccompanied by stones. The predominant 

 projectile point recovered there is lanceolate with sides contracting 

 to a straight or slightly concave base and exhibiting exceedingly fine 

 oblique ribbon flaking; the basal edges have been ground. Many of 

 these points are made of a fine-grained quartzite, available in quarries 

 within a few miles of the site. This point, originally referred to as 

 the "Long point," from the name of the owner of the land on which 

 site 39FA65 was located (Hughes, 1949, p. 270), is now commonly 

 known as the "Angostura point" (Wheeler, 1954). Other artifacts 

 recovered include small end scrapers, knives of plate chalcedony, per- 

 cussion-flaked blades, drills, side scrapers, flake scrapers, and manos 

 but, unfortunately, many of these specimens were collected from the 

 ravine slopes. It seems reasonable to suppose that most if not all of 

 them have been derived, through erosion, from occupational deposits 

 equivalent to those uncovered by excavation, but unhappily the asso- 

 ciation is not certain. 



In the early summer of 1950, during a period of 5^ weeks, more 

 extensive areas of the Long site were uncovered by the combined use 

 of machinery and hand labor, A bulldozer was used to remove the 

 overburden at two fairly widely separated locations (Areas A and 

 B) in the site (pi. 8, a). Two large trenches (50 by 40 feet and 70 

 by 40 feet) in Area B were excavated by this means to maximum 

 depths of 7 feet and 10 feet respectively, leaving ^ to over 4 feet of 

 earth above the occupational zone. At Area A, where most of the pre- 

 viously excavated artifacts had been recovered, a space 85 feet long 

 and 50 feet wide was stripped to an average depth of approximately 

 3^ feet. Excavations were then carried out by hand below the floors 

 of the bulldozer trenches (pi. 8, b). Two smaller exploratory trenches, 

 one west of Area A and the other east of Area B, were also dug with 

 the bulldozer. 



In Area B evidences of two occupations, represented by small, 

 simple hearths, were found. There were only a few flakes in the 

 lower level, but the upper level produced fragments of rough lanceo- 

 late blades, a metate, a mano fragment, and many flakes of quartzite 

 and chalcedony. In Area A four fragments of Angostura points and 

 numerous chalcedony and quartzite flakes were found with four 

 hearths representing a single occupation. Charcoal was collected from 

 both areas. Two samples, one collected in 1949, the other in 1950, 

 have been tested by the radiocarbon method and have been assigned 

 ages of 7073 ± 300 and 7715 ± 740 years. Unfortunately, both 

 samples were from Area B, where diagnostic points have not been 



