OBSERVATIONS ON STONE-CHIPPING. 



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that teacbes its probable use. In the case of tlie bevel-edged points, 

 all I have found have been amoug waste where the users have lived, 

 done their cooking and skin-dressing ; and these were always associated 

 with broken bones, muscle shells, fragments of pottery, flint knives, 

 scrapers, &c., never scattered as if lost in hunting, as we find arrow-heads. 

 One iieculiarity of the bevel point is its strong, massive shank to secure 

 it to a shaftor handle. This is shown in Figs. 8 and 9, with their cross-sec- 



FlG. 9. 



tions on the dotted lines; they arebothofvery dark, hard chert. . Fig. lOis 

 from Bath County, Kentucky, near the Upper Blue Lick ; it is of beauti- 

 fully striped jasper ; two sections are given to show the great thickness 

 to give strength to the cutting-edges Fig. 11, yellow jasper; the want 

 of symmetry in form is most probably the result of sharpening by fresh 

 Fig. 12, a beautiful specimen of workmanship, showing a difler- 



Haking 



(Half size.) 



Fig. 10. 



FIG. 12. 



ent mode of attachment to a handle. All the above are drawn full size. 

 In a small cache of leaf-shaped implements were found six of the bevel- 

 edged points, all broken off at the shank in precisely the same manner, — 

 pretty conclusive evidence of hard service, and probably- brought to 

 the workshop to liave new shanks formed and to be re-hafted. 



