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lodges in and about which the work was carried on. In the center is 

 a sliallow depression, which was the fireplace of the 

 Lodge Sites lodge (fig. 81). Around this are accunudations of 



fragments, flakes, partially worked rejects, and the 

 hammerstones left b}' the workinen, the Avliole remaining seemingly 

 undisturbed since the period of occupation. Outside of these circular 

 clusters are heaps of chert masses just as they were brought from the 

 quarry and deposited within reach of the workmen, arid in some 

 cases flattish lumps of chert, probably used as seats or anvils, are 

 surrounded by piles of refuse. Not only are these shop phenomena 

 thus fresh and undisturbed, but in some instances the flint seems 







Fig. so. I'lan of ]odg(> shop site showing central Are pit and circle of chert Mocks and 



shaping refuse. 



hardly to have changed color or to have suffered in the least from 

 weathering or from tlie fires which must at times have swept the 

 forest. 



The work of quarrying and shaping the stone corresponds in 

 nearly every respect with that of the Flint Kidge and Arkansas 

 quarries already described. Tlie ordinary and almost exclusive prod- 

 uct of the shaping work was some form of blade, a 

 The Shaped i>rod- ^^^^^^^ ^^^.^ intended in most cases at least to be sub- 



uct 



sequently elaborated into implements of more highly 

 specialized type, as hoes, knives, and projectile points. A series of 



