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were trimmed and specialized, and heavy beds of chips and other 

 wastage of implement making, including the chipping of imple- 

 ments, are found. It is probable also that much selected raw mate- 

 rial from the quarries was carried to this place to be worked up. 

 There are hammerstones of the usual type, as well as numerous chip- 

 ping tools of deer antler (fig. 74). Many of the latter were discov- 

 ered by Dr. Phillips in an excavation made through an accumulation 

 of shop refuse near the bank of the creek back of the Hale residence. 

 These implements were probably used rather in the secondary trim- 



FiG. 74. Chipping implements made of the base of deer antlers. (Three-fourths actual 



size.) 



ming of the blades than in the roughing-out work. The manner of 

 their use is suggested in figures 75 and 7G. 



The distribution of the product of the Mill Creek quarries was 

 very wide and specimens assignable to this source 

 °^ are found throughout a large area, including por- 

 tions of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ten- 

 nessee, and Ohio, but since closely corresponding materials probably 

 are found at other points somewhat distant from Mill Creek, the 

 range of the Mill Creek material can not be very definitely deter- 

 mined. Concretionary material of the Mill Creek type is said to 



Distribution 

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