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Show ANTIQUITY OP MAN 8x mainly according to form. Tools of many kinds exist in great numbers, such as hammers, gouges, scrapers, drills, adzes, chisels, and knives; and also utensils, such as soapstone vessels, mortars and pestles, in great variety. "^ Pipes carved out of stone are not at all uncommon ( and often show fine workmanship. Among ornaments and miscellaneous objects may be mentioned pendants, beads, disks, plummets or sinkers, and many other articles the use of which is not known. 1 " NFor the now generally accepted belief that the makers of all these various objects were none other than the ancestors of the present Indians there are several reasons. In the first place^ e general culture revealed by the remains is practically the same as that of the Indians before they were modified by contact with the whites. Moreover, \ the early explorers found mounds used as sites for dwellings; and not only ascribe their construction to the Indians, but describe the methods by which they were built. 1 Fortifications are also known to have been erected and used by the Indians. \ Additional evidence comes from the mounds themselves, since iron objects and articles of undoubted European manufacture have been found in a number of them, showing that some at least were constructed 1 The literature on stone implements and objects is voluminous. A general work with many references is Moorehead, Prehistoric Implements: A Reference Book. * Thomas, American Archaology, chap. x. VOL. II.- 6 |