Discoveries at a Village of the Stone Age. 1 5 
permanency in the position of the individual hut was found to 
exist in other hut-bottoms. The huts, therefore, must have been 
re-built from time to time, and perhaps were deserted for a part 
of the year. 
There seems, however, to have been sufficient permanency to 
these hut-bottoms to warrant the assumption made in a preceding 
page, that each saucer-shaped depression in the kitchen -middens 
of this village marks the site of a hut. 
From the present aspect of the surface of the kitchen-middens 
at this village site, a rough approximation to the population of 
Bocabec River during this latter part of the Stone Age may be 
obtained. In that part of the higher portion of the main village 
site which still remains undisturbed by the plow, there are depres- 
sions marking the position of about thirty hut-bottoms. Allow- 
ing four individuals to each hut, there would be in this part of the 
village a population of about 1 20. But behind this part of the village, 
which has been ploughed over, there is an area of about equal 
extent covered by shells ; and an additional tract of about the 
same size, more or less covered by kitchen-middens, lies to the 
east of the higher part of the village site. A population of 300 
may, thererefore, at times, on the basis above given, have lived at 
the main village at Bocabec. 
But beside this site, there were the two other small villages, 
one at the upper beach, and the other on the point to the eastward 
of the entrance of the river. Including the subsidiary villages, 
there may, therefore, at times, have been a population of 400 souls 
on the Bocabec ; though it seems more probable that half this 
number would be a sufficiently large estimate of the people of the 
Stone Age, permanently located on this river. 
It appears to have been the practice of the women who dwelt 
in hut A, to stow away their needles, pins, and other articles of 
use or adornment, at the back of the hut, and here they would 
occasionally slip down and be lost between the couch and the 
poles and stones of the outer wall. Several of the bone imple- 
ments taken from this hut bottom were found in such places. 
MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY. 
One of the occupations of the women living at Bocabec was 
the manufacture of pottery. On the western side of hut bottom 
