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hoe blades. One large specimen, 7 by 2.25 inches, with one flat 
surface, may have been an adz. Two complete hoe blades with 
flaring bits were found in the bottom of house F2 at a depth 
of 2.8 feet. They were standing together with their cutting 
edges up and displayed a high polish as a result of their use for 
digging. The third hoe, which measures 9.5 by 4.5 inches, has a 
pointed bit and was found in the north end of the village. Cer- 
tain other chipped flint forms had apparently been made from 
older, concave base, side-notched forms and were used as chisels 
or scrapers. The technique indicated by the small triangular 
and notched stem points Is the fine chipping of flakes or thin 
blades characteristic of the Middle Mississippi Phase. 
The flints range in color from white through shades of yel- 
low, brown, pink, red, gray, blue to black, but no obsidian and 
little translucent material was found. With the exception of 
one polished needle with an eye near the larger end, the bone 
artifacts are not distinctive. Two other needles were also dis- 
covered made from deer ulnae or slivers of leg bones. Antler 
tip flakers are numerous and there are a few straight tips with 
hollow bases, suggesting their use as projectile points. Part of 
a polished animal jaw, which may have been used as an orna- 
ment, was unearthed. 
three aberrant 
spear 
point 
the Scotts-Bluff Yuma point. It came from the first level 
of NMolO near the top of the mound. Another point of gray 
flint with concentric ring structure has the lozenge shape with 
expanding base which is more typical of the atlatl dart points 
of the Bluff Dwellers of the Ozarks.^ It was found at a depth 
of^only 1.2 feet near the edge of a gulley. One large spear 
point of bluish flint speckled with gray has the characteristic 
outline of the Illinois Black Sand point. It was found less than 
one foot deep in a large house site in the Matthews village. 
These artifacts are suggestive of the activities of a primitive 
huntiner. fishin? anH farmlnrr n^-^T^i^ 
Pottery Analysis 
Dr. James B. Griffin of the Ceramic Repository for the 
Eastern United States analyzed all of the ware types from the 
Matthews settlement He found seven wares that were shell 
tempered and one ware that was clay tempered. Plain, undec- 
orated, shell tempered and clay-grit tempered potsherds out- 
lunbcred the 
Decorated sherds 
