THE ARCHEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF NEW YORK 9 



coordinated, Morgan must be recognized as the fa'.her of New York 

 archeological science. Certainly his researches and pubHcalions 

 stimulated a large amount of interest not only in this State but 

 throughout America and to an equal extent in Europe. From 

 Morgan's study of the New York aborigines and their antiquities 

 came the inspiration that has made anthropologists, sociologists and 

 political economists recognize him as one of America's foremost 

 observers, and to look to this State as a singularly important field 

 of research and the place of valuable source material. 



Students have been drawn to the New York field, some moved 

 to research by a study of the Indians still living in our midst ; 

 others by an interest in the prehistoric remains found scattered 

 through valleys and over terraces. Many other men and women 

 v/ho have no professional interest in science have yet been vitally 

 interested in the study of various branches of sociology and anthro- 

 pology through a knowledge of the cultural relics in the State, 

 Even successful business men have benefited through pursuit of 

 archeology as an avocation. One keen-minded young man employed 

 by a corporation of experts in business efficiency, upon the inquiry 

 of the executive officer as to how he developed his extraordinary 

 powers of close observation answered, " By the experience I gained 

 in hunting Indian relics." With much enthusiasm he confessed to 

 the writer the secret of his rapid progress. " I owe all my success," 

 said he, *' to that first snub nose little arrow point I found wdien 

 a boy. It taught me how to look for things." 



Perhaps it is because the search for archeological specimens and 

 the subsequent effort to make a correct interpretation of them so 

 develops observation and clear thinking, that business and pro- 

 fessional men manifest so keen an interest in such collecting. Aside 

 from this is the zest of out-of-door exercise, bringing health as well 

 as wisdom. There are many factors connected with the study of 

 Indian artifacts that make American archeolog}' an attractive 

 science. It is a human science, it awakens the imagination along 

 logical lines, it teaches the use of resources nearest at hand, thereby 

 developing ingenuity ; it cultivates attention to small details, thereby 

 stimulating observation ; and, as an outdoor study, it cultivates a 

 keen appreciation of the land in which one lives. The archeologist, 

 dealing with what early men made, whether flint points or forti- 

 fications with earthen walls, comes to have a broader, higher per- 

 spective of humanity. He is capable of understanding men better 

 because he knows more of man's history. Dealing also with the 



