Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . FiG. 10. Small hammerstones used in blocking out the flint. ventionalized hammer, has the general appearance of a discoidalstone and is made of granite. No. 2 is a flattened cylinder madeof flint. Nos. 3 and 6 are round, of granite. Nos. 4 and 5are round and made of flint. During our entire explorationwork upon the Ridge only one hammer witli provision for theattachment of a handle was noted. This specimen was foundby Mr. E. F. Fink, who owns a farm in the region of , Muskingum County. The hammer is shown in Fig. is made like the cyl
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . FiG. 10. Small hammerstones used in blocking out the flint. ventionalized hammer, has the general appearance of a discoidalstone and is made of granite. No. 2 is a flattened cylinder madeof flint. Nos. 3 and 6 are round, of granite. Nos. 4 and 5are round and made of flint. During our entire explorationwork upon the Ridge only one hammer witli provision for theattachment of a handle was noted. This specimen was foundby Mr. E. F. Fink, who owns a farm in the region of , Muskingum County. The hammer is shown in Fig. is made like the cylindrical forms, with a deep groove for tlieattachment of a handle cut across the flat faces. In many sec-tions of Ohio grooved hammers are very abundant and oftenrival the grooved axe in numbers. The question has often beenasked by those interested in quarrying, why is the grooved. ten Vol. XXX —9. (129) 130 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. hammer absent from Flint Ridge when it is so universallyused throughout Ohio, while at the aboriginal copper mines ofMichigan large grooved hammers and mauls are often met with?The answer seems quite apparent when the mining of the copperis properly studied. The native copper was all the aboriginalminer was seeking, and very often the metal was surroundedwith a very hard rock. All that was needed was to crush thisrock with a hammer-blow that had back of it force and power,but not necessarily accuracy — a force which could be obtainedonly with a hammer attached to a handle. On the other hand,
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