The Archaeology Of The Delaware Valley Volume 05 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Archaeology of the Delaware Valley, Vol. 5 For twenty-two years Mr. Ernest Volk, working under my general direction, has been engaged in archaeological researches in the Delaware valley at Trenton and vicinity. The geological features of this region have made it a Mecca for students of glacial geology, for many years, and it has been the site of many controversies. To this day no perfect accord has been reached as to the age of the clays, sands and gravels which were deposited there during the glacial period and at its close. It has not been the purpose of Mr. Volk to enter into any controversy as to the age of the Trenton gravel and sand, nor to make special geological researches, but simply to ascertain if there are unquestionable evidences of man's occupation at the time contemporary with the deposits during any portion of the glacial period and its immediate close. To this end, my directions to Mr. Volk have been to examine every exposure of the sand and gravel; to watch for stones that had even the slightest appearance of being in any way artificial and possibly the handiwork of man; and to look for any bones of man or animals. In complying with these instructions, Mr. Volk has examined many thousand square yards of exposures and has sliced away, with a trowel, several thousand cubit feet of the sand and gravel. That this work has been done faithfully and conscientiously, no one can doubt after reading the following pages. That the reader, not familiar with the glacial geology of the region, may have a general conception of it, Mr. Volk has begun his report with a brief summary of the geological conditions as he interprets them. In order to understand the whole archaeology of the region, several old Indian sites and others of comparatively recent date, have been explored, and a large amount of material has been gathered for comparison with that of an earlier time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.