TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.1 Purpose and Goals of Investigation
1.2 Project Location and General Description
1.3 Research Design2.0 RESULTS OF ARCHIVAL AND BACKGROUND RESEARCH
2.1 Methods of Research
2.2 Prehistory of the Vicinity
2.2.1 Paleoindian and Early Archaic Periods (ca. 11,000 to 6500 B.C.)
2.2.2 Middle Archaic (ca. 6500 to 2500 B.C.)
2.2.3 Late Archaic (Ca. 2500 to 1000 B.C.)
2.2.4 Early Woodland (ca. 1000 to 500 B.C.)
2.2.5 Middle Woodland (ca. 500 B.C. to A.D. 900)
2.2.6 Late Woodland (ca. A.D. 900 to 1600)
2.2.7 European Contact and Exploration (ca. 1600 to 1650)2.3 Historic Context
2.4 History of Events at the Patent Office
Table 1. Patent Office Building Site Chronology 2.5 Archeological Sites in Project Vicinity3.0 ASSESSMENT OF POTENTIAL FOR ARCHEOLOGICAL RESOURCES
AND RECOMMENDATIONS3.1 Potential for Prehistoric Archeological Resources
3.2 Potential for Historic Archeological Resources