522 Mac Curdy — Passing of a Connecticut Rock Shelter. 



the collectors so readily as did the stone artifacts. Only three 

 specimens, all three bone points, were secured (fig. 26) ; as two 

 of these were found by our Museum staff, the probability is 

 that many more were carted away with the refuse. 



Of pottery a good many fragments were noted by the Wood- 

 cocks. Neither they nor the other collectors thought it impor- 

 tant to save the potsherds. The sherds preserved belong to 

 two varieties, one of rather fine quality with decorated lip and 

 neck (fig. 27), the other crude. Unfortunately it is not known 

 at what level the pottery was encountered, or whether the two 

 kinds were at the same or different levels. 



American archeology has always been handicapped by the 

 lack of chronological data. These can never be supplied by 

 surface finds. Among the possible sources of such data, caves 

 and rock shelters should rightly be counted. The destruction 

 therefore of a cave record like that at Pine Rock is nothing 

 short of an archeological calamity. 



