Archeologic investigations in James and Potomac valleys / by Gerard Fowke.

  • Gerard Fowke
Date:
1894
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Credit: Archeologic investigations in James and Potomac valleys / by Gerard Fowke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    greatly from them in habits, customs, or other features of culture, and the occupancy was confined apparently to a single period ending with the final expulsion of the red man 140 years ago. There is no evidence of long-continued occupancy of any section or site and the art remains do not appear to represent any localized culture development. On the west the art forms affiliate with those of Ohio valley and on the east with those of the tidewater country. On the north there are traces of Iroquoian influence and on the south a gra¬ dation into the southern Appalachian phases of art is shown. There is absolutely nothing in the archeologic evidence that is not sufficiently accounted for on the assumption that the highland districts of Maryland and the Virginias were overrun and at times occupied by the historic tribes associated with the general region.