. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 5 POLISHED STONE HATCHETS. These are sometimes called celts, from the Latin word chisel, butthey are not chisels, but chopping tools used as axes or correctness of the Latin word has been assailed, and the name isbeing gradually abandoned. They have been also called in the UnitedStates (I think improperly) fleshers. They are the standard implementrepresenting the neolithic period, or polished-stone age. They wereoften made of flint, but any hard, close-grained, and tough stone in thelocality would serve. They
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 5 POLISHED STONE HATCHETS. These are sometimes called celts, from the Latin word chisel, butthey are not chisels, but chopping tools used as axes or correctness of the Latin word has been assailed, and the name isbeing gradually abandoned. They have been also called in the UnitedStates (I think improperly) fleshers. They are the standard implementrepresenting the neolithic period, or polished-stone age. They wereoften made of flint, but any hard, close-grained, and tough stone in thelocality would serve. They are substantially the same in form, size,and, subject to the above suggestion, the same material in all parts ofthe world. A series of these implements from the United States willnot differ essentially from a like series of any other country. Theywere used as a hatchet, being inserted in a handle of wood; occasion-ally in a socket of deer-horn, which, in its turn, was inserted in awooden handle. Specimens made of hematite are, I believe, peculiarto the United Fig. Stone Hatchets (A). Fo. 56 represents a hematite hatchet from Ohio; 57, greenstone fromIndiana; 58, syenite from Illinois; 59, greenstone, and 00, induratedchlorite slate, from Tennessee; 61 from Louisiana; 62 rare, from NorthCarolina. 646 REPORT OF NATIONAL MtJSEtJM, , GOUGES, AND ADZES. The chisels and gouges are similar to the polished stone hatchets Justdescribed, except the difference in form indicated by their name.
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