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h. Spindle whorls made from perforated potsherds, 
i. Discs, unperforated, 
j. Trowels with rounded or bifurcated handles. 
k. Elbow pipes, plain and effigy forms. 
1. Small mushroom-shaped earplugs. 
m. Human and animal figurines. 
n. Pottery more abundant than artifacts, 
0. Unidentified biconical objects. 
E. ARTIFACT TRAITS 
a. Stone hammers, anvils, manos, metates, shallow mortars, 
pestles, tool-sharpeners, and polishers; crude, heavy 
and little-worked. 
b. Unpolished biconcave discoidals. 
c. Polished celts and spuds. 
d. Chipped celts or adz. 
e. Small finely-chipped isoceles triangular 
f. Small side-notched arrowpoints. 
g. Hoes ; chipped flint, bell-shaped and pointed bit. 
h. Chisel celts; narrow chipped. 
i. Knives and scrapers re-chipped from older implements. 
j. Drills; straight and winged base types. 
k. Flake knives with chipped edges, 
1. Deer ulnae and tibiae awls, 
m. Split bone needles. 
n. Bone cylinders with blunt ends. 
o. Antler tip flakers. 
p. Antler tip points with hallowed out bases, possibly pro- 
jectile pointts. 
q. Polished animal jaw ornament. 
r. Galena cube, 
s. Gastropod (sea) shell. 
t Engraved Busycon shell ornaments, 
u. Cannel coal ornaments. 
V. Columella shell beads. 
R MISCELLANEOUS TRAITS 
a. Large quantities of deer bones in refuse pits. 
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C- Hickory nuts. 
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e. Jaws of small d 
f. Charred acorns, 
g- Bison bones. 
