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II Particular Places 



1 Sites of dwellings 



a Lodge sites 



b Caves and rock shelters 



2 Refuse deposits 



a Fire pits 



b Refuse pits 



c Refuse heaps 



d Shell heaps 



c Signal light ash deposits 



3 Monuments 



a Mounds 



b Cairns 



c Inscribed rocks 



d Council rocks 



4 Burials 



a Graves 

 b Ossuaries 



5 Places of industry 



a Kilns 



b Individual workshops 



6 Places for storing or hiding things 



a Caches of implements finished, general 

 b Caches of raw material, general 

 c Individual caches 



7 Ceremonial places 



a Springs 

 b Spots 



DESTRUCTION OF SOURCES OF INFORMATION 



Many of the most valuable sources for archeological research have 

 been forever lost to the State and to the scientific world in general. 

 Mounds and earthworks have been destroyed and leveled through 

 the necessities of a commercial civilization that has taken little heed 

 of things archeologic. Railroads and canals have cut through 

 ancient sites and have thrown the priceless relics of aboriginal art 

 in with the common dirt to be used for roadbeds or for grading; 

 farmers, not realizing their vandalism, have scooped down earth 

 walls and mounds to level their land for agriculture; manufactories, 

 towns and cities have been built over the site of Indian villages and 

 burials, and not less lamentable has been the work of ignorant col- 



