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partially rminclecl frnt>ments are found in large numbers. The most 

 striking example of this class of site yet observed is 

 ^ilops''' ^'''" ^°"" lot-ated'' in Page County, Va., near the village of 

 Luray. It occupies several acres of bottom land on 

 the right bank of Pass Creek, a few hundred yards above its con- 

 fluence Avith Hawksbill Creek. The materials utilized by the inhabit- 

 ants of this site were derived from great accumulations of pebbles. 



Fu;. 101. Iiiriiiiuiit gn)(>v<'d iixcs shuwing tlie cITccts of pec-king (crmiililiiiu,M with a 



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bowlders, and i)artly water-worn fragments of dioritic rock present 

 in the banks and bed of the stream, and now exposed where freshets 

 have torn channels through the alluvial bottom. On the village site 

 about a low central mound the phenomena of manufacture are more 

 or less confused with those of utilization, but separation of the 

 varied features is in the main possible and easy. It was found by 

 study of the shop refuse that in very many cases the work of shap- 

 ing by the pecking process was preceded by cliii>ping and followed by 

 grinding. Abortive forms representing all stages of the work were 



