Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ?-^ a t I- 5 i^ ^ o llJ 1^ d ** I- OS O uj ^ _it~\ — •iS ^ HOLMESJ PROCESSES OF FLAKING 59 produced and the rather haphazard arrangement of the percussionpoints prechide the idea that any process capable of accurately adjustingthe point of contact between the tool used and the article shaped couldhave been employed. At best such a method would certainly not bereadily applicable to a stone of the refractory nature of the manner of deliveiing the stroke seems sufQciently deter-mined, the p
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ?-^ a t I- 5 i^ ^ o llJ 1^ d ** I- OS O uj ^ _it~\ — •iS ^ HOLMESJ PROCESSES OF FLAKING 59 produced and the rather haphazard arrangement of the percussionpoints prechide the idea that any process capable of accurately adjustingthe point of contact between the tool used and the article shaped couldhave been employed. At best such a method would certainly not bereadily applicable to a stone of the refractory nature of the manner of deliveiing the stroke seems sufQciently deter-mined, the precise method of holding the stone shaped is left to con-jecture. My own ex])eriments have been conducted on the assumptionthat it was held in the hand. The account of flaking processes givenin the following paragraidis is based on the belief that freehand per-cussion with hammers of stone or other hard and heavy material wasthe exclusive or principal (juarry-shop process. lleferring to the series of graded rejects illustrated in plate xvii, weobserve that the process of manufact
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