RESEARCHES IN CALIFORNIA 
1898 
This was one of the most interesting years of my career 
as an archeologist. Several previous years had been devoted 
to the study of the problem of man*s antiquity in America, and 
my prolonged investigations in the eastern United States 
served, to demonstrate the soundness of my views on the signi- 
ficance of the several classes of stone implements. Of special 
interest were those rudely chipped objects customarily assigned 
to great antiquity and upon which the glacial, paleolithic 
people and culture had been predicated . My studies showed 
that they were merely the rejectage of implement making of 
Indian tribes. Other features of the antiquities of consider- 
able importance were verified, among which were especially 
the phenomena of the quarries of soapstone and the manufacture 
of implements of stone of all varieties. 
Good fortune this year made it possible to carry these 
researches into the far west and especially into the gold- 
bearing region of California where evidence had been obtained 
to show that man was present in the period of the formation 
of the gold-bearing gravely the age of which reaches back 
into the tertiary period hundreds of thousands of years ago. 
The fall months of 1898 were spent in a delightful 
series of excursions in California, I had the opportunity of 
studying the Indians and their primitive but most interesting 
arts at first hand, and of making important collections of 
