Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...lying on the washed gravel; apparently it had rolled out with the gravel, which is clear Columbian (71009) No. 1 of this date. On the surface of a freshly ploughed field south of the elevation and about half way to the bluff of the terrace I found (71010) No. 2 of this date; it is interesting because of its resemblance to one I found in the sand pits deep below the surface in undisturbed sand some time ago.1 There are several specimens in my collection at the American Museum of Natural History in New York from the Columbian gravel at White Horse Road about two miles south of Kuser's Woods. This field is still new (I mean the search for traces of man in the Columbian gravel), and deserves study. Aug. 3; I examined the gravel thrown out from the sewer trench in Second Street back of the New Jersey Arsenal, and found on top of the heap, newly thrown out, a specimen (71011) much resembling a palaeolith, or the thick end of one. The material is much decomposed and waterworn. The heap of gravel on top of which it was found is five feet high and that part of the trench from which the top of the heap came is eight feet deep; before the sewer trench was made the street had been cut down several feet in changing its grade. Nevertheless I did not see the specimen thrown out. Aug. 18; In the afternoon I took a party from Trenton, Mr. 1IcCallie, the Principal of the School, .Irs..IcCallie, .Ir. Lanning, Judge of the Supreme Court and his sons and their friends to the terrace, Lalor Field, and along the bluff to Dr. Abbott's house. l'1'he specimens referred to are of a geological character unless specially noted as " artificial." It must be stated however that some of the fractured stones here regarded as probably fractured or...