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) (14783061615)

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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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ATHER DATES. PAGE 123. EXTRE:\rEs OF cur/rnRE. 125 seen a little batterin,^ al ihc ends. The use of suchcelts seems to have been more like that of a knife,althouiijh still it ma_\- have been more like repeatedliL;ht blows than like strokes of a knife. E.rphinafioii nf Plate XII. This jdale shows the extremes of culture, evincednot onl)- by the differences of patination but by the dif-ferent types of implements, i he specimens illustratedare from the Kansas valley, and chieH) from the vi-cinity of Alma, in the !Mill Creek valley, one of thetributaries of the Kansas river. The oldest artificial surfaces are seen on Xo. .3165and No. 52151. The former is specially valuable as ademonstration of two dates of chipping on the samespecimen. l)oth of them so old as to have acquireda patination. The older patination almost surroundsthe piece, showing that it had about the same size andform in Paleolithic time as at present. At certainpoints this patination, wdiich is a dirty-brown (ordrab) and g