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Some 45 chips of chert, mostly green in color, range in length from 

 1 to 6.5 cm. A few might have been used for scrapers or knives, 

 but most seem to be the debris of manufacture. We do not know 

 what was being made, however, since the few finished artifacts of 

 flaked stone include no specimens of chert. The proveniences of 

 these flakes are: 4 from Old To^^^l III, 2 from Old Town II, 1 from 

 an unknoAvn level, and all the rest from Old Town I, including the 

 upper and lower levels of Mounds C and D and of the fill in House 

 Pit 7. 



Thus, of 52 pieces of worked chert only 9 came from Old Town 

 III, 2 from Old Town II, and 2 from an unkno\\Ti level in Mound B, 

 showing that the flaking of chert, whatever the purpose, had become 

 virtually obsolete by the period represented by Alounds A and B. 



WORKED QUARTZ, GREENSTONE, AND SLATE 



From Old To\vn III is a flake of quartz, 4.8 cm. long, which could 

 have been used as a knife or scraper. 



In addition to the fragments of adz blades, already described 

 (p. 95), there are 6 flakes of greenstone. One is from Diyaguna'Et, 

 one from Old Town III, three from Old Town I, and 1 piece from Old 

 Town, level unkno^vn. The last could have been used as a scraper. 



Of chipped and ground slate, a piece from Little Fort Island may 

 have been intended for a knife blade. The proveniences of other 

 fragments are: one from Old Town III, one from Old Town II, and 

 three from Old Town I. 



MISCELLANEOUS WOODEN OBJECTS 



In addition to the artifacts described elsewhere, many pieces 

 of carbonized wood were found, chiefly in the burned houses. These 

 are mostly fragments of firewood, workshop chips or splinters, a few 

 of which show the marks of adz and knife but only 10 appear to have 

 been purposely shaped. 



Among the latter, there are two slender wooden pins, well made 

 and polished. One (fig. 24, d), pointed at both ends and 17.5 cm. 

 long, is from the Storage House in Old Town II; the other (fig. 15, c), 

 from Old Town III, is now broken, but was evidently pointed at one 

 end. A more roughly made pin, originally over 30 cm. in length, 

 came from House 8 in Old Town II. 



Figure 24. — Wooden objects. Drawn by Donald F. McGeein. a, Spatulate object, from 

 floor of Storage House, Old Town II (No. 388); b, wooden blade, from below floor of 

 Storage House, Old Town II (No. 423); c, spatulate object, from below floor of Storage 

 House, Old Town II (No. 429); d, wooden pin, from just above floor of Storage House, 

 Old Town II (No. 256); e, fragment of bidarka rib (?), from floor of Storage House, Old 

 Town II (No. 399);/, cut branch, from floor of House 9, Old Town III (No. 658). 



