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) (14596382169)

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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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SPECIMENS NOT PALEOLITHIC. 65 edges, app.ireiitly (or possibly) to brin^ Uic piece intoform in the tinishins;- touches, rather than by use as animplement. The blows that caused the battering weredirected about perpendicularly upon the edge, as in-dicated by the fact that usually the little slivers i\ewin both directions. It is noticeable that sometimes themost battered points are at places where the edge wasclumsy, or too thick, and that this extra thickness re-mains even after the battering-, indicating- that at thosepoints the edge was at first also unduly prominent.This delicate implement is perfect in outline, althoughit was coarsely chipped out. This llarahey knife (sonamed by Mr. Brower) is not- characteristicallybeveled, and is probably Neolithic No. 1. No. 5053. Small tomahawk, blue-gray chert, sectionrhomboidal. All the chipped surfaces are quite freshexcepting- only a small space on the reverse side nearthe larger end. This remnant, as w-ell as those men-tioned on the last,