Pap. No!' 2?]'^" JOHN H. KERR RESERVOIR BASIN — MILLER 137 



Crude liammerstones have worked facets at one or both ends (pi. 51, 

 a-d) . Some are rounded, others are crudely disk shaped with shal- 

 low pits on one or both faces ; the remainder are just crude waterworn 

 hardheads picked up from the adjoining riverbed, used temporarily 

 and soon discarded after they became too badly battered and 

 fractured. 



Fire-broken and/or cracked stones were often found scattered 

 throughout the midden deposit. In a number of instances small heaps 

 of these stones were found but none of them were in direct association 

 with or in the immediate vicinity of fire-burned areas. Wliether 

 these can be designated as caches of fire-broken stones could not be 

 determined. 



Then, too, there was a crude pavement of broken and whole stones 

 that rested directly above one of the burials. Whether this was 

 constructed to keep dogs and other animals from molesting the grave 

 could not be decided, for such a feature has not appeared regularly 

 in this section of the State. It is inferred that this was its primary 

 function, as it was much too small to indicate a living area. 



CHIPPED STONE ARTIFACTS 



Chipped stone artifacts were not plentiful (pi. 52) . All are crudely 

 manufactured and can be divided into three classes, depending upon 

 their general outline: stemmed, ovate, and triangular. Of the 

 stemmed type there are straight stemmed with slightly concave bases, 

 and side notched with either rounded bases or slightly concave or 

 straight bases. There are two general types of ovates: those with 

 rounded bases, and those with sliglitly constricted and receding bases. 

 The triangular forms are crude and mostly chipped upon one surface, 

 leaving the other surface flat and untouched as far as chipping goes. 

 All points are typical Woodland types. 



Associated with the projectile points are a number of chert and 

 slate spades, ovate in outline, fashioned by percussion flaking, and 

 showing only the slightest amount of smoothing along the working- 

 edges, wliich was acquired through use. 



There were several flat, unworked spauls of slate, of various sizes 

 and shapes, found in all levels. These showed only the faintest trace 

 of having been used, possibly as digging instruments. 



POTTERY MAKING 



With the introduction of the art of pottery making, around 1000 

 B.C., the Archaic was gradually brought to a close and archeologically 

 the Early Woodland period had arrived. The stone and bone tools 

 and other objects that had been manufactured during the Archaic and 

 characterized that period were still manufactured, and the ensuing 



