. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. not be overlooked. This was based originally on prehistoric relics of Europe, and it served excellent purpose in dis-tin;;iiiishing finely finished atone implements from tlinse of rudely chippod atone; but botli classes ofartifacts were shaped in accordance with preconceived design, and hence both belong to the tecbno-litbic class as herein defined. It may be added that tlie classification was made with little if anyreference to jirimitive thought, was not based on observation a
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. not be overlooked. This was based originally on prehistoric relics of Europe, and it served excellent purpose in dis-tin;;iiiishing finely finished atone implements from tlinse of rudely chippod atone; but botli classes ofartifacts were shaped in accordance with preconceived design, and hence both belong to the tecbno-litbic class as herein defined. It may be added that tlie classification was made with little if anyreference to jirimitive thought, was not based on observation among i)rimitive peoples, and has notbeen found to apply usefully to the aborigines and aboriginal artifacts of America, where the repre-sentative tribe or i)relii9toric village site characterizrd by inii>lements of both paleolithic andneolithic types which intergrade in such manner as to prove contemporaneous manufacture andinterchangeable use; while the preponderance of polished-stone implements is generally indicative ofsimpler rather than of more advanced culture. ■■,,., ^ «y^*?r^. V*■>- f UJ oa UJQ z< H
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