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Rh The typical culture lies in the southern sub-area, centering in New Jersey. In this area village sites with cache pits for storage are numerous and often enclosed by traces of small defensive works. Shell-heaps are small and relatively barren of specimens. Objects made of stone are abundant and varied,



and show good workmanship; the forms include the grooved ax, rounded celt, pestles, and problematical forms, as banner stones, gorgets, etc. One noteworthy object is the carved stone human head, found in New Jersey. All these traits are found with much less intensity east of the Hudson where the plummet, gouge and adze appear. In the Hudson Valley proper we find some intrusive Iroquoian pottery forms. Finally, we have in this region a large number of rock-shelters.

The northern half of the area, including Maine, Gaspé, and the Maritime Provinces differs from the preceding in the