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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  them 
  fire-cracked 
  stones 
  and 
  charcoal, 
  evidence, 
  it 
  may 
  be, 
  of 
  man 
  

   contemporaneous 
  with 
  the 
  American 
  elephant. 
  There 
  are 
  sites 
  

   which 
  yield 
  the 
  monitor 
  pipe, 
  others 
  that 
  yield 
  the 
  polished 
  slates 
  

   called 
  banner 
  stones, 
  gorgets 
  and 
  bird-shaped 
  stones 
  and 
  the 
  notched 
  

   flints 
  far 
  different 
  from 
  the 
  flints 
  shaped 
  by 
  later 
  comers. 
  That 
  the 
  

   people 
  who 
  made 
  these 
  things 
  were 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  race 
  is 
  evident, 
  

   but 
  of 
  what 
  tribe 
  or 
  stock 
  is 
  a 
  question 
  yet 
  to 
  answer. 
  Neither 
  

   is 
  there 
  yet 
  any 
  way 
  of 
  discovering 
  who 
  their 
  descendants 
  of 
  today 
  

   are, 
  if 
  perchance 
  their 
  blood 
  yet 
  flows 
  in 
  human 
  veins 
  at 
  all. 
  At 
  

   a 
  later 
  period 
  a 
  new 
  stock 
  of 
  people 
  invaded 
  the 
  region 
  but 
  whether 
  

   they 
  found 
  it 
  inhabited 
  or 
  whether 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  struggle 
  in 
  which 
  

   the 
  old 
  race 
  was 
  expelled 
  is 
  merely 
  a 
  matter 
  of 
  conjecture 
  now. 
  

   Evidences 
  of 
  the 
  wide 
  distribution 
  of 
  these 
  old 
  people 
  seem 
  to 
  

   preclude 
  the 
  theory 
  of 
  their 
  utter 
  extermination 
  and 
  it 
  seems 
  more 
  

   probable 
  that 
  they 
  became 
  absorbed 
  by 
  their 
  conquerors 
  or 
  became 
  

   expelled 
  to 
  regions 
  where 
  their 
  environment 
  changed 
  their 
  culture. 
  

  

  The 
  later 
  invaders 
  who 
  displaced 
  the 
  builders 
  of 
  the 
  mounds 
  and 
  

   makers 
  of 
  polished 
  slate 
  implements 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  some 
  early 
  

   branch 
  of 
  the 
  Huron-Iroquois 
  family. 
  Their 
  territory 
  is 
  character- 
  

   ized 
  by 
  the 
  earth 
  walls 
  and 
  inclosures 
  which 
  they 
  left 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  

   pottery 
  and 
  triangular 
  arrow 
  points 
  which 
  are 
  never 
  found 
  on 
  

   earlier 
  sites 
  untouched 
  by 
  other 
  occupations. 
  The 
  early 
  Iroquoian 
  

   sites 
  are 
  still 
  further 
  differentiated 
  by 
  the 
  ossuaries 
  which 
  are 
  found 
  

   upon 
  many 
  of 
  them. 
  Later 
  this 
  territory 
  came 
  into 
  the 
  possession 
  

   of 
  a 
  people 
  whom 
  we 
  recognize 
  as 
  the 
  Eries, 
  a 
  branch 
  of 
  the 
  Huron- 
  

   Iroquois, 
  but 
  a 
  people 
  whose 
  culture 
  differed 
  from 
  the 
  earlier 
  

   Iroquoian 
  peoples 
  of 
  whom 
  they 
  are 
  without 
  doubt 
  the 
  descendants. 
  

   After 
  the 
  expulsion 
  of 
  the 
  Eries 
  in 
  1654 
  the 
  region 
  remained 
  un- 
  

   inhabited 
  save 
  by 
  wanderers 
  and 
  hunters 
  and 
  not 
  until 
  after 
  the 
  

   Revolutionary 
  War 
  did 
  it 
  become 
  the 
  hunting 
  grounds 
  of 
  the 
  Sen- 
  

   ecas 
  who 
  had 
  trails 
  through 
  it, 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  passed 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  

   Erie 
  site 
  at 
  Ripley. 
  Over 
  this 
  trail 
  the 
  Senecas 
  for 
  years 
  traveled 
  

   on 
  their 
  way 
  to 
  the 
  settlements 
  on 
  the 
  Sandusky 
  in 
  Ohio. 
  Another 
  

   great 
  trail 
  extended 
  down 
  what 
  was 
  once 
  the 
  Portage 
  road 
  to 
  

   Chautauqua 
  lake. 
  It 
  began 
  at 
  Barcelona 
  harbor. 
  

  

  There 
  have 
  been 
  noted 
  numbers 
  of 
  sites 
  of 
  aboriginal 
  occupation 
  

   east 
  of 
  a 
  meridian 
  line 
  drawn 
  through 
  Chautauqua 
  lake 
  and 
  touch- 
  

   ing 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  and 
  the 
  Pennsylvania 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  south. 
  

   West 
  of 
  this 
  line, 
  from 
  the 
  archeologist's 
  standpoint, 
  lies 
  a 
  prac- 
  

   tically 
  untouched 
  region, 
  a 
  strange 
  fact 
  since 
  it 
  presents 
  an 
  excep- 
  

   tionally 
  inviting 
  field 
  for 
  investigation, 
  being 
  as 
  it 
  is, 
  the 
  border- 
  

   land 
  between 
  the 
  territory 
  of 
  the 
  tribes 
  of 
  Iroquoian 
  stock 
  and 
  the 
  

  

  