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15 th Annual llopo rt * 1893*94 * 
’'Professor fh H* HoIms was occupied throat oat the year in 
aroheologic researches, ohiefly in eastern United States. The first 
half of July was spent In organising the work of the year, and later 
he proceeded to different points in Delaware Talley for the purpose 
of continuing studies of ancient quarries and quarry shops. 4 new 
quarry shop was discovered on Delaware river* 15 miles above fron¬ 
ton* yielding rejects corresponding precisely with the objects so 
abundantly found in the gravels on which the city of fronton is 
built* and which wore formerly classed as paleoliths, Subsequently 
he visited a number of Interesting localities In Ohio, giving especial 
attention to the gravels at newcomeratown* in or apparently in which 
an artificially shaped atone has boon found, this being the only case 
now strongly held to indicate the existence of man during the Glacial 
period in this country. 
In October ho visited an Island in Potomac river, near Point of 
Hocks, flooded by a recent freshet In such manner as to lay bare an 
analent village and aboriginal workshop, This workshop proved^of 
considerable interest in that hero unmistakable Indication was £oun& 
for the first time that blocks of atone were used as anvils in the 
production of certain classes of stone implements and weapons* 
During February Hr ogeesor Holmes directed the exploration, by 
;%* Dill lam Mfiwi&di#, of an aboriginal steatite quarry near Clifton, 
Virginia. this quarry was found especially instructive by reason of 
its large also, the great number of partly completed utensils found 
within the opening and in the nm ghh©ring dump heap, and the excell¬ 
ence of its preservation. 
In April Professor Holmes, accompanied by Hr. McGee, Ethnologist 
in Charge, repaired to an interesting site near the mouth of Hass 
oread, not far from Lui*ay, Virginia, for the purpose of collecting 
additional data relating to a noteworthy series of atone art products, 
to which attention was called during the preceding fiscal year by Mr, 
Gerard Fewke* 
k considerable additional collection was made and an aboriginal 
cemetery, from which a typical collection of mortuary pottery was 
taken, was discovered In a neighboring field. The stone art products 
in this locality are of exceptional interest, ae the "Turtlehaolr* 
forms are rejects from the manufacture of celts. The rejects hitherto 
studied by Professor Holmes represent* exclusively or predominantly, 
narrow-point©d instruments, such as spearpoint® or arrowheads, while 
those found at the mouth of Hass creak represent predominantly the 
.manufacture of broad and thin pointed objects. A sufficiently complete 
series of rejects and nearly completed forms to illustrate all stages 
in manufacturing was brought together** (Pages IDCmi-LXXIV) 
