In the village sites explored by Mr. Volk, argillite was the exclusive material of the implements found in the lower strata of gravel.
Trenton, where, in the lower strata, the argillite specimens are sixty-one times more numerous than the jasper are.
Large size, and nearly all of rough finish; mostly of argillite or flint, a few of quartzite.
The argillite specimens have the broader ends striated as though used for rubbing or scraping, but in other respects conform to those of other materials.
Figure 73 exhibits a specimen of argillite from Carter county, Tennessee, probably an adze or scraper, with a projection to keep the implement from being forced into the handle.
The reel-shape banner stones are somewhat variable, but are fairly illustrated in figure 139, representing a specimen of argillite from Sevier county, Tennessee.
In the remnants of forests still remaining, where no such disturbance of the soil has occurred, the relative depths at which argilliteand jasper respectively occur indicate the greater age of the former.
On the other hand, no similar sites have been discovered, to my knowledge, where argillite was used exclusively.
It is, indeed, difficult to realize how some of these argillite spear-points have finally sunk through a compact peaty mass until they have reached the very base of the deposit.
The specimens from the second period are of argillite, and while many are chipped into slender points, they are still of very rude forms; and these in turn correspond with the argillite points found by Dr.
To these various arguments the writer wishes to add the statement that to his personal knowledge argillite spear-points, and especially those of the fish-spear type, are occasionally found in other parts of our country besides New Jersey.
If the absence of argillite from such heaps of selected stones is explained by the assertion that the Indians had recognized the superiority of jasper, then the belief that argillite was used prior to jasper receives tacit assent.
In this layer were numerous implements of argillite and some of bone, intermingled with rude implements of quartzite and jasper and fragments of rude pottery, with charcoal.
In no one of these workshop sites has there been found any trace of argillite mingled with the flint-chips that form the characteristic feature of such spots.
They are inclined towards the south, and the argillite at a great angle.
It is not to be confounded with the primitive argillite which occurs below transition limestone, and is met with in the highly primitive parts of New England, nor with the aluminous schist of the great secondary formation to the west.
And we can assign no reason why silver {139} and other metals should not be found in the argillite with quartzy veins, and in the other rocks of the transition period, which we know to exist in these mountains.
The Sinagua also were fortunate in having a deposit of a red rock called argillite not too far away.
Lac, an insect secretion found on creosote bushes, was sometimes used to cement the turquoise and argillite to the shell base.
Argillite found in the Verde River region was also mined.
In subordinate beds, in the argillite of the River St. Louis, northwest of Lake Superior.
Also, in veins in the granite of Lake Superior, and in the argillite of St. Louis River.
In subordinate strata in theargillite of the River St. Louis.
On reaching the head of it, we found argillite in a vertical position.
When arranging this collection, I was much impressed with the fact that the argillite implements, of which there were many considerable lots, were all labeled by Prof.
It seems to me but one inference is permissible: they who fashioned these rude argillite implements were the descendants of palæolithic man, and his superior in so far as a knowledge of the bow and arrow and rude pottery indicates.
In other words, the plow unearths the Indian relics in great quantities; but, my digging deeper, objects of argillite are found in significant numbers.
Let us consider these rude argillite spear-points, and the circumstances under which they occur, a little more closely.
These argillitepoints and scrapers seem to belong to the palæolithic man toward the end of his "age," manifesting a higher stage of culture reached by gradual improvement.
The fact that argillite continued in use until the very last does not affect this conclusion.
We still have paleolithicity in the gravel, argillite and the discovery of pottery synchronous with the deposition of the gravel-capping sand, and, lastly, the Indian.
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