The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no. 1. - a consideration of the paleoliths of Kansas (illustrated by 20 figures and 19 half-tone plates) (1913) (14596386738)

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Title: The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no. 1. : a consideration of the paleoliths of Kansas (illustrated by 20 figures and 19 half-tone plates)
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Winchell, N. H. (Newton Horace), 1839-1914 Minnesota Historical Society
Subjects: Stone implements -- Kansas Kansas -- Antiquities
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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e Brower reg-ister of the Historical Society) and the other (b) fromthe drift at Thetford. England, (Xo. 1108:3 of theSmithsonian register and 222S of the Brower register). The former (a), approximates the general shape ofa scraper but is too large for that designation, and,besides, its larger end is not artificiallly beveled on oneside in a manner like the mono-oblique beveling of theconventional scraper, although a ))art of the old outersurface which came in contact with the rock matrixin wdiich as a chert nodule it was originally surround-ed, slopes toward the l)asc. with a curving contourso as to give it the general shape of the small Xeo-lithic scrapers of America. Its general surticial coloris a mottling of buft-yellow and gray of difteringshades, these colors blending into each other. A few 12 WEATHERING OF STONE ARTIFACTS. recent chips have been llaked from the edges andfrom the small end, revealing the fact that the interiorcolor is a mottling of gray of differing shades, and
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Oiitll r a IliUMtlitli from F«Miar<lent,KrJiiice. COMPARISON WITH EUROPEAN PALEOLITHS. 13 proving- that the 3ellow and buff tones and the glossi-ness have been acquired by weathering. These ac-quired tones do not pierce the substance of the chert