224 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BuLL. 185 
retouched on both faces; and the distal sections of two points in gray quartzite, 
fully retouched on both faces. 
Modified jlakes—Two fragmentary flakes of gray and brown chalcedony bear 
retouch scars along parts of one or more edges. 
Reruse MaATEeriats 
Small samples of chipping debris and of faunal and vegetal remains 
were recovered from the Joos site. 
Chipping debris.—One small core and four small flakes of quartzite and nine 
small flakes of chalcedony are present. 
Faunal remains.—This material consists of a scapula of bison, Bison bison, 
and five unidentifiable animal-bone fragments; one unidentified bird humerus 
and vertebra; and nine shell fragments, one of which was identified as Lampsilis 
siliquoidea (Barnes). 
Vegetal remains.—The material includes two lots of decayed, charred wood 
and one lot of charcoal, not as yet identified, and one charred pit of Prunus 
americana. 
UNEXCAVATED OCCUPATION SITES 
Hight detrital areas along the west side ef the James River which 
had been exposed and disturbed by bulldozers to varying degrees, in- 
cidentally to clearing the reservoir area of timber and brush, were 
located, recorded by site designation, and briefly examined by mem- 
bers of the Missouri Basin Project field party between June 18 and 
June 21, 1954, during the last season of archeological work in the 
Jamestown Reservoir area. All these pottery-bearing sites are now 
obliterated by impounded water. Descriptions of the sites and of the 
materials taken from them follow. (The location and estimated 
extent of each of the eight sites are shown in fig. 26.) 
Site 52SN34 occurred along the edge of the low terrace, in NEY 
and NWYNEY, sec. 23, T. 141 N., R. 64 W., approximately 414 miles 
in an airline northwest of the Joos site. It consisted of a deposit of 
debris lying from 0.4 to 0.8 foot below the surface, in fine light-brown 
alluvial silt, and covering an area about 1,200 feet long east-west by 
150 feet wide north-south. The specimens obtained from this site 
include: 
1 rim-and-lip sherd of Buchanan Punctated type; 
1 rim-and-lip sherd of Pingree Cord Impressed type, with the cord having an 
S-twist; 
2 shoulder sherds of Owego Tool Impressed type (?) ; 
1 near-rim sherd with closely spaced horizontal cord impressions, with the 
cord having an $-twist; 
8 scored near-rim sherds; 
12 simple stamped body sherds; 
10 smoothed body sherds; 
2 small bilaterally side-notched projectile points with straight base, lacking 
the tip, in jasper; 
