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Va., 44Ch4; Halifax County, Va,, 44:Ha4, 44Ha8; Warren County, 

 N.C., 31Wal ; and Vance County, N.C., 31Val and 31Va2. 



No pottery was found at any of these sites. Some are definitely 

 flint chipping or manufacturing stations, wliile others belong to pre- 

 ceramic camp establishments. To distinguish between them the 

 former are characterized as having heavier deposits of castojff cliips 

 and flakes, as well as broken stones and discards, than those recognized 

 as preceramic camp establishments. Usually, in the latter, there are 

 a greater number of finished artifacts, while in the former, spoils are 

 greater. 



It would also appear that site position in relation to the present 

 stream system has a direct bearing and correlation to relative age. 

 Those located in the uplands and on the higher terraces appear to be 

 much older than those located adjacent to the various streams and the 

 lowlands of the present day. Usually, the many projectile types at- 

 tributable to paleo- American forms have been recovered in the past 

 from sites located on the uplands and not necessarily in close proxima- 

 tion to streams ; those that correlate with the Archaic and later types 

 are usually derived from sites located on lower terraces and the flood 

 plains adjacent to the various streams within the system. 



Site 44Mcl2 is a flint workshop located well outside the confines of 

 the reservoir limits and was not damaged by the construction of the 

 dam or the resultant reservoir. Its position has been plotted at 

 78°28'50'' longitude, 36°35'46'' latitude. The area at the time of 

 visitation was partially under cultivation and the surface was well 

 strewn with large numbers of chips, as well as spalls and castofl's. A 

 large number of quartzite points, in all stages of completion, had been 

 collected in the past by the farmer who owns the land, as well as by 

 a number of local collectors. A number of badly decomposed burials 

 were imcovered in the past, after deep plowing had indicated the 

 presence of bones. From what the writer could gather, all of them 

 were tightly flexed and lying on their sides and placed in shallow, 

 round or oval graves. A number of these grave areas were pointed 

 out to the writer, but further digging failed to turn up any burials. 



In the imcultivated portion of th.Q site there were numerous piles 

 of castoff quartzite wastage. Testing in their vicinity proved un- 

 profitable, for the ground had only a thin covering of soil and the 

 underlying material consisted of pure quartzite resembling the sur- 

 face wastage. 



Site 44Mc24, located in the Clarksville Magisterial District at 

 78^31'35" longitude, 36°36'18" latitude, covered a large portion of 

 the surface of a small knoll measuring 375 feet long by 200 feet wide, 

 and, at the time the site was visited, it was planted to com. Nu- 

 merous stone chips and broken and cliipped stones of chert and quartz 



