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7. Irregular fragments with retouched edges (sample: 4)' Plate 24, 6. 



Cross section : Irregular flake surfaces. 

 Technique: Pressure, conciously retouched. 



8. Heavy Hades with tapering bodies and convex bits (sample: 3). Plate 24, h. 



Range of length : 84.0 mm. (one complete example) . 



Range of width : 35.0-50.0 mm. 



Range of thickness: 18.0-20.0 mm. 



Crosa section: Biconvex, with strong tendency toward plano-convex. 



Technique : Percussion, pressure on bit. 



9. Fragment, crudely shaped blade, tapering body, convex ii-regularly beveled 



bit (13jn2-15). Plate 24, a. 

 Length: 107.5 mm. 

 Width : 37.0 mm. 

 Thickness: 16.0 mm. 

 Cross section : Roughly tabular. 

 Technique: Percussion, poorly controlled. 



10. Fragment, polished and abraded stone (13JH2-14). 



11. Hammerstones, one or more surfaces evidencing battering (sample: 3). 



Plate 25, a. 

 Range of maximum diameter : 59.0-64.0 mm. 



12. Fragment, split and smoothed long bone, smoothed epiphysis, cancellous 



tissue removed, badly weathered (13JH2-2G). 

 Length : 54.0 mm. 

 Width: 20.0 mm. 

 Thickness: 9.0 mm. 



ANALYSIS 



The former landowner has found a wide range of lithic materials 

 at 13 JH2, but almost entirely from the surface. Included in Mr. Cro- 

 sheck's collection are many small triangular points and typical 

 stemmed Woodland forms, with a limited occurrence of large corner- 

 notched examples generally attributed to Hopewell. Frequent large 

 blades also suggest the latter. 



Excavation produced only a single point fragment (No. 3 above). 

 This example is strongly reminiscent of the "type 2" form of the 

 Illinois Valley (Cole and Deuel, 1937, p. 55). A small series of 

 related types (see Nos. 1-3 above) were recovered by surface col- 

 lecting. Superficially similar forms are frequent in the literature 

 (ibid.; Fowler and Winters, 1956, fig. 10, I), but the most specific 

 and significant tie is the lanceolate points labeled Nebo Hill (Shippee, 

 1948). Although other elements of the defined complex are not 

 present, the 13JH2 points appear to fall well within the range of the 

 Nebo Hill materials. The Nebo Hill type points have been noted 

 axially along the Missouri Kiver in Missouri, in southwestern Iowa, 

 and in the vicinity of Manhattan, Kans. The complex remains un- 

 stratified and undated, but a relationship to early complexes of the 

 Plains has been suggested (ibid., p. 32). The type points also re- 

 semble Archaic forms from the Illinois Valley (McGregor, 1957, 

 p. 272). 



