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sinew for thread a serviceable job of sewing was possible. The 

 needles apparently were made from splint bones from deer or bison. 



The three types of projectile points are the characteristically fluted 

 Folsom (fig. 82) ; a point that in its general outline resembles the 

 Folsom but has only a thinned base formed by the removal of several 

 short, narrow flakes instead of a single broad, long one as in the case 

 of the Folsom ; and a triangular-bladed form with a long, broad tang. 

 They occur in the preceding order with the Folsom at the bottom, 

 the oldest level. The significance of this evidence is that it establishes 

 the priority of the Folsom type. On the basis of typological studies 

 it has been suggested that the thinned-base type was a preliminary 

 stage in the development of the facial fluting typical of the Folsom 

 points, but it now appears that it represents a break-down in the 

 form. The type with the long, broad tang occurs in a distinct stratum 

 that is definitely later in time than the Folsom horizon. Similar points 

 have been found at several sites in western Nebraska and Kansas 

 and have been regarded, by some investigators, as contemporary 

 with the Folsom. This is now disproved. 



In addition to the above-described work, nine test trenches were 

 dug in portions of the site not investigated previously. None of these 

 revealed promising locations for further excavations, and the open- 

 ings were not enlarged. Evidence obtained from many test pits, those 

 put down in previous years as well as those of the current season, 

 indicates that the area where the major digging was done was the 

 main camping place on the old valley bottom. 



During the month of August the writer supervised student excava- 

 tions at the University of New Mexico field session in the Chaco 

 Canyon, N. Alex., and visited several sites in New Mexico and 

 Arizona where reports indicated the possibility of relatively early 

 occupancy. The most important of these is one located south of the 

 town of San Jon, approximately 25 miles southeast from Tucumcari, 

 in eastern New Mexico. There large numbers of cut and split animal 

 bones, most of them in an advanced stage of fossilization, are 

 weathering from deposits along the edge of the Staked Plains. As- 

 sociated stone flakes and artifacts indicate a former hunting grounds 

 or camping place. Projectile points from the assemblage suggest an 

 earl)' Yuma type, and it is possible that valuable information on the 

 proper place in the archeological picture of the area of that much-de- 

 bated form could be obtained by careful excavation of the site. While 

 the writer was absent from the Lindenmeier site, work continued 

 under the supervision of Charles R. Scoggin. a student from the 

 University of Colorado, who has been a member of the field party 

 during all but one of the several seasons of excavation there. 



