Excerpt from The Archaeological History of New YorkFor many years New York State has been a prolific field for students of American archeology. Indeed, large collections of aboriginal artifacts were made long before students of natural science had any adequate idea of the cultural significance of the objects they discovered. To the early collector the curious implements of the Indians were simply relics and no special effort was made to record anything about these relics except to give the name of the collector and the date of the finding, both facts relatively unim portant.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.