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WORK AT THE QUARKY. 



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one of my assistants is seen in a partially filled pit, and other pits are 

 visible in tlie forest beyond. Vegetation has hardly begun to encroach 

 on these artificial beds of loose, angular chert. 



THE (2UAKKY-SIIOP PRODUCT. 



In my report on tlic ancient quartzite bowlder quarries of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, imblished in the American Anthropologist, Janu- 

 ary, 1890, I gave a careful analysis of the evidences relating to the 

 nature of the articles produced. It was shown that a study of the 

 refuse could be made to yield a full knowledge of the work done on the 



I'li;. ().— I'laii of ;i lodge- shop ^iti', .showinj; fire i)it and circle of refuse. 



site; tliat <jii account of tlie brittleness of the material, implements in 

 process of manufacture were necessarily broken at all stages of elabo- 

 ration, some at the first stroke and others by what should have been 

 the final stroke — that is to say, the stroke that, if successful, would 

 have finished them so far as the quarry-shop work was intended to be 

 final. This fact is in a general way true of all the quarry-shops. 



It is observed here, as elsewhere, that as a rule little or no specializa- 

 tion of form was attempted on the quarry sites. If completed articles 

 or implements are found intermingled with the refuse on any such site, 

 it is because they were employed in the work of quarrying and shaping 

 or because they were accidentally present and lost. The ordinary and 

 almost the exclusive shaped product of these sites, aside from the ham- 



