14 STONE IMPLEMENTS (etii. axn. 15 



iiivestig'atioiis so fully recorded in tliese pages liave proved beyond 

 the shadow of a doubt that the great deposits are on the sites of work- 

 sho])s connected with extensive quarries where the raw material (Cre- 

 taceous bowlders) was obtained. It was further lound that the widely 

 scattered specimens of the same class were ou sites (village-sites or 

 otherwise) yielding less plentiful sup])liesof the available raw material 

 where manufacture had been conducted ou a smaller scale. That the 

 vast l)ody of the rudely tiakcd stones of the provinc'e are rejects of 

 manufacture was readily shown. 



As a second step in the investigation it was deemed necessary to 

 determine the exact relations of these objects with the real implements 

 of the region. This was accomplished by first determining by most 

 careful studies of the rejectage of the great llaking shops just what 

 the product of the flaking ojierations was. This pi-oduct, so far as 

 the jirogress of si>ecialization of form on the shop sites indicates, was 

 found to be a leaf-shape blade. A third step in these explorations 

 was then undertaken for the purjiose of determining the destiny of 

 these blades — where they were carried and how and by whom used. 

 Many specimens of identical form were found on Indian village-sites 

 in all parts of the surrounding region, and in several cases on sites of 

 historic Algonquian settlements, where they were intimately intermin- 

 gled with the midden refuse, pottery, and neolithic implements. It 

 was further discovered that a large percentage of the countless stone 

 implements — knives, spearlieads, arrowpoints, etc — found iu the broad 

 valley below, were of leaf-blade genesis; that before they received 

 their final shapes by trimming, stemming, and notching, they had 

 been blades, corresponding exactly with those produced in the multi- 

 tude of shops. The sho])S are, therefore, a necessary complement of 

 the implements of the region and the implements are a uecessary com- 

 plement of the shops. The shops, great and small, are thus definitely 

 connected with the great body of implements of the region, and these 

 implements are directly connected with the dwelling sites of the his- 

 toric peoples. The practical unity of the stone art of the region is iu 

 this way fully established, no type of implement or shaped stone not 

 being fully accouuted for by the well-established facts and uecessary 

 conditions of recent Indian occupancy. 



That these demonstrations should be complete and satisfactory, 

 studies were made of quarries of other materials in the neighboring 

 highland, where the conditions proved to be the same in every respect. 

 Similar leaf shape blades were made and carried out to the surrounding 

 valleys where they and tbe implements specialized from them are fouud 

 closely associated with the more local art products. 



That the subject should be further rounded out aud completed, all 

 known classes of implements have beeu studied and relegated to their 

 proper categories, and the history of their manuf^icture and the classes 

 of rejectage pertaining to them have been determined. In all this work 



