. Bulletin. Ethnology. 298 BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bdll. ho Tins method could have little \aluc in shaping minor artifacts, but must ha\e been of great service at all stages of progress in breaking up stone in the quarries and possibl}^ in rough - shaping stone for building purposes. Closely akin to the pre- ceding is the use of one stone held in the hand as a ham- mer, hafted or unhafted, in fracturing another stone at rest, held or not held, to alter its shape or to remove frag- ments and flakes for use as implements or for (he making of implements (fig. 101). This simple process has d
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 298 BUREAU OP AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bdll. ho Tins method could have little \aluc in shaping minor artifacts, but must ha\e been of great service at all stages of progress in breaking up stone in the quarries and possibl}^ in rough - shaping stone for building purposes. Closely akin to the pre- ceding is the use of one stone held in the hand as a ham- mer, hafted or unhafted, in fracturing another stone at rest, held or not held, to alter its shape or to remove frag- ments and flakes for use as implements or for (he making of implements (fig. 101). This simple process has doubtless been employed by all primi- tive peoples, and its opera- tion, we may assume, led up- wai'd, as skill and intelligence increased, to the development of other and more refined })rocesses of working stone. Many of the accounts given by casual observers of the use of the hanunerstone in implement making by the aborigines are meager. Fig. IGO. Fracturing a largo stone with huninicrstone cast as a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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