8 JAMES AND POTOMAC ARCHEOLOGY [g? 



feUREAn OP 

 HNOLOOy 



greatly from tliem in habits, customs, or other features of culture, aurl 

 the occupancy was confined ai)parently to a single period ending Avith 

 the final expulsion of the red man 140 years ago. 



There is no evidence of long-continued occupancy of any section or site 

 and the art remains do not appear to represent any localized culture 

 development. On the west the art forms affiliate with those of Ohio 

 valley and on the east with those of the tidewater country. On the 

 north there are traces of Iroquoian influence and on the south a gra- 

 dation into the southern Appalachian phases of art is shown. There 

 is absolutely nothing in the archeologic evidence that is not sufficiently 

 accounted for on the assumption that the highland districts of Maryland 

 and the Virginias were overrun and at times occupied by the historic 

 tribes associated Avith the general region. 



