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) (14783075195)

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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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MILWAUKIOK. WIS. TWO-THIRUH ACTUAL SIZE. TAGK 166. PUBLIC MUSEUM, Mll^W AlIvHE. HiT tor PI. L. Ward that the accompanying illustration(three-fourths actual size) is presented (i)late X\).Its number is ^^r^^ and on searching the records it 2677 was found to have been deri\ed from Adams county,Wisconsin, which is outside tlie line of the W isconsinmoraine, bui (juite near it. This specimen has thelorm of a true Paleolith. as the term is used in thisdiscussion, but its age is likely to be i)ost-Kanson. i. e.,Early Neolithic. Madison. (1) The museum of the Wisconsin His-torical Society contains a collection of rude artifactsfrom Seneca, Mo. They are made of a light-coloredchert, similar to that of some large spears and knives(points) in the Brower collections, derived fromMissouri. (Jn breaking one of the triangular flakes,Curator Brown found the light color is not due to apatina, but that the material is white within ; but onclose inspection it is to be noted that the interiorwhiteness h