Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . 0 Fig. 53.—Stone Flakes:—a, Palteolithic ; b, Modern Australia: <r, Ancient Denmark. flakes are those not struck off, but forced off by pressurewith a flaking-tool of wood or horn. The neat Danish flake,Fig. 53 <r, was no doubt made so, and the still more beautifulsharp flakes of obsidian with which the native barbers ofMexico, to the astonishment of Cortes soldiers, used toshave. A stone flake just as struck off may be fit for useas a knife, or as a spear head like that in Fig. 58 « ; or byfurther chipping it may be ma
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . 0 Fig. 53.—Stone Flakes:—a, Palteolithic ; b, Modern Australia: <r, Ancient Denmark. flakes are those not struck off, but forced off by pressurewith a flaking-tool of wood or horn. The neat Danish flake,Fig. 53 <r, was no doubt made so, and the still more beautifulsharp flakes of obsidian with which the native barbers ofMexico, to the astonishment of Cortes soldiers, used toshave. A stone flake just as struck off may be fit for useas a knife, or as a spear head like that in Fig. 58 « ; or byfurther chipping it may be made into a scraper, arrowhead,or awl, like those in Fig. 54. VIII.] ARTS OF LIFE. 187 The oldest known tribes of men have left in the driftgravels of the quaternary or mammoth-period not only. Fig. 54.—Later Stone Age (neolithic) implement;, a. ^tone celt or hatchet; h. flintspear-head ; c. scraper ; d. .irrnw-heads; e, flint flake-knives ; /. core from taken o£F ; g, flint-awl; /;, flint saw; /, stone hammer-head. rough flakes like Fig. 53 a, but the stone implements alreadymentioned in the first chapter, of which the drawing is here
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