. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. hich I have described, with two exceptions, the onebeing an oval trimmed flake, and the other a double scraper of the The quartzite implements are of the forms already described : andsame form as those of the caves of Southern France and of theKesslerloch. of those made of clay iron-stone, only one demands special is a small oval implement of the and Moustier type,blunt at the base and tapering to a rounded point (fig. 2). The numerous split quartzite pebbles are of the same sort as thoserecently described by Cap
. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. hich I have described, with two exceptions, the onebeing an oval trimmed flake, and the other a double scraper of the The quartzite implements are of the forms already described : andsame form as those of the caves of Southern France and of theKesslerloch. of those made of clay iron-stone, only one demands special is a small oval implement of the and Moustier type,blunt at the base and tapering to a rounded point (fig. 2). The numerous split quartzite pebbles are of the same sort as thoserecently described by Captain Jones, U. S. A., as being in use amongthe American Indians of Wyoming. He writes, Certain articles ofa very rude character are still in use to some extent among ourwestern Indians, and even in the case of such tribes as have now * Reliquiae Aquitanicae. t See Excavations at the Kesslerloch Cave, near Thayingen. By ConradMerk. Translated by J. E. Lee. Longmans, 1876. OF THE CAVES OF CRESWELL CRAGS. Fig. 2.—Ironstone implement, Robin Hood Cave, \, 593. entirely discarded the implements of stone and bone, relics of suchmaterials are not uncommonly found in graves which cannot be re-garded as ancient. The Shoshones, though mostly provided withtools of iron and steel of approved patterns, are still to be seen em-ploying as a scraper in the dressing of skins a mere teshoa, con-sisting of a small worn boulder, thinner at one end, split throughthe middle in such a manner as to furnish a rough cutting-edge atone side. There seems to be a considerable advantage in this over anyform of knife or other tool which has yet reached them from without;and it is probable that it will be retained so long as their presentmethod of preparing hides is in vogue *. Probably those of theRobin-Hood Cave were put to the same use. A fragment of red raddle from the cave-earth had probablybeen used for painting. The large number of splinters in the cave proves that it was usedby the hunters as a place
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