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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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with the dwelling sites of the his-toric peoples. The practical unity of the stone art of the region is inthis way fully established, no type of implement or shaped stone notbeing fully accounted for by the well-established facts and necessaryconditions of recent Indian occupancy. That these demonstrations should be complete and satisfactory,studies were made of quarries of other materials in the neighboringhighland, where the conditions proved to be the same in every respect.Similar leaf shape blades were made and carried out to the surroundingvalleys where they and the implements specialized from them are foundclosely associated with the more local art jirodncts. That the subject should be further rounded out and completed, allknown classes of implements have been studied and relegated to theirproper categories, and the history of their manufacture and the classesof rejectage pertaining to them have been determined. In all this work BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. I
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Scale lJ2,-230,ono =35ta.*iiQ. _j^^^^»BI£S MAP OF THE POTOMAC-CHESAPEAKE TIDEWATER PROVINCE1 ng fom the heavy broken line (the fall line) on the west to the dotted line on the east HOLMES) PALEOLITHIC MAN 15 there lias not been fouud a single feature of the art remains or indus-trial phenomena of the region suggesting the presence of other thanthe known peoples. The full series of illustrations presented in this paper will enable thestudent to make comparisons and arrive at his own conclusions. Greatcare has been taken to arrange these illustrations so that they will tellthe story clearly and fully. It is fortunate for those who may wish to verify or question theresults reached in this study that the full range of phenomena is stillwell within their reach, and need only to be properly consulted toreveal the whole truth. It is not attempted in the present paper to apply the results reachedto the settlement of controversies arising elsewLere. The same is trueof the preliminary paper p

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