. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . is remarkable that these leaf-shaped implements shouldbe found in France in nests or en cache, and that great numbers of sim-ilar instruments should be found in the United States likewise fre-quently in nests. It would be exceedingly strange if, upon furtherstudy and careful investigation, it should be discovered that the Ameri-can implements should belong to the same paleolithic epoch, as dothose of Points were also made of bone, sometimes apparently for use inpiercing skins, or for sewing garments. Sometimes to
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . is remarkable that these leaf-shaped implements shouldbe found in France in nests or en cache, and that great numbers of sim-ilar instruments should be found in the United States likewise fre-quently in nests. It would be exceedingly strange if, upon furtherstudy and careful investigation, it should be discovered that the Ameri-can implements should belong to the same paleolithic epoch, as dothose of Points were also made of bone, sometimes apparently for use inpiercing skins, or for sewing garments. Sometimes to replace thechipped flint for spear-points. Another implement peculiar to thisepoch was a fine flint-point, apparently a spear, with a tang and shoul-der on only one side. But it is in its art products that this period is remarkable. TheChellian implements and the Moustierian points and scrapers arescarcely fine enough to be worthy of the title of artistic. * Plate Lxxxvni. ■ Plate lxxxiv, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Wilson, Plate
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