The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no 1 : a consideration of the paleoliths of Kansas (illustrated by 20 figures and 19 half-tone plates) . usedfor cutting; but I soon found that nearly every onehad been so used. Every one (I hardly know of anexception) shows a mashing and fine fracturing asif done by pounding, or other contact, on a piece ofWOod or of other stone. This battering is found alongsome long edge, or near some angle or place of vant-age, which could be made to serve as an ax or chopperin the hand of the owner. It seems as if the full pur-pose of the knapper was to get a
The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no 1 : a consideration of the paleoliths of Kansas (illustrated by 20 figures and 19 half-tone plates) . usedfor cutting; but I soon found that nearly every onehad been so used. Every one (I hardly know of anexception) shows a mashing and fine fracturing asif done by pounding, or other contact, on a piece ofWOod or of other stone. This battering is found alongsome long edge, or near some angle or place of vant-age, which could be made to serve as an ax or chopperin the hand of the owner. It seems as if the full pur-pose of the knapper was to get a simple edge, whetheron a large piece or on a small one, and that he knewnothing, or next to nothing, of the finer art requiredto make an arrow-point or a scraper. The limit oftheir skill was in the forniation of a tomahawk or aturtle back. Note. Some of the Early Neolithic class show a cal-careous scale, or Glacial patina, as I have elsewherecalled it. (Records of the Past, vol. 8, p. 251.) ^Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society of East 1, Part 1, 1910. 70 w i:a ruKuixG oi stonk autifacts. ruhnlitliic Cult lire ill \((iHt]iir February 24, 1912. Ifind by continued examin-ations (of other Kansasspecimens) that the placeof origination of thescraper, in the Glacialscale, is still doubtful, as -there are some patinated rspecimens which are |rudely mono-beveled |which appear to express *the scraper idea. I have Ilaid out a few. I also find s a specimen (Xo. 5069) Z •Iwhich is a piece of what | may have been a Quiv- ? ira knife, like this fioure, s ?which not only is patin-ated by lonj:^ weathering,but on being broken, asshown ])y the dotted line,has a distinct, light-col-ored patina which can beseen surrounding the unweathcred interior, andwhich has a nearly uniform thickness, but is thicker•on one surface, it appears, hence, that the feeblecommencement of Xeolithic culture was in Paleo-lithic time. The Ouivira knife in its perfecticni ap-])eared in Xe
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