The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no 1 : a consideration of the paleoliths of Kansas (illustrated by 20 figures and 19 half-tone plates) . RESUME AND The reader who has peruseil the fore<i(iiiit?pages devoted to a eoiisideration of the Ialeohths ofKansas will he t^lad to have the main results a smaller eomi)ass. For this i)ur])Ose a resumeof the steps alon.^- wliieh the inx-cstii^ation has beenprosecuted will he a suitable introduction. 1711 \\i;atiii;i;i.\(; of stoxi: artifacts, 1. Tlu- Kansas artifacts arc of at least three differ-cnt and succe


The weathering of aboriginal stone artifacts, no 1 : a consideration of the paleoliths of Kansas (illustrated by 20 figures and 19 half-tone plates) . RESUME AND The reader who has peruseil the fore<i(iiiit?pages devoted to a eoiisideration of the Ialeohths ofKansas will he t^lad to have the main results a smaller eomi)ass. For this i)ur])Ose a resumeof the steps alon.^- wliieh the inx-cstii^ation has beenprosecuted will he a suitable introduction. 1711 \\i;atiii;i;i.\(; of stoxi: artifacts, 1. Tlu- Kansas artifacts arc of at least three differ-cnt and successive dates. iMiis is slimvii l)y a crunpari-son of the oldest with luiropean Ialeoliths which theyresemble in patination and in culture, and by the facttliat the rudest implements ha\e been taken as basisfor the makinjT of nicer implements by later the Indians found in the Kansas valley(Wichita) who were supposid l)y Mr. r)rower to havebeen the fabricators of the oldest inij^lements. were inno way connected with their manufacture. 2. The blue-gray chert of the Upper Carboniferousin Kansas is abundantly exposed in the region.


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