ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIVES. 



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implements found wliicli might have seiNccl lor this purpose, the num- 

 ber recogni/ed and admitted as such is comparatively few. Some are 

 of bone, some of horn, and others (strange to America) are of Hint. 

 Dr. Capitan, in the display of the Ecole d' Anthropologic at the Paris 

 Exposition in 1889, showed a bone flaker, and he described and figured 

 it in the rei)ort of that display made to the minister of public instruc- 

 tion. In the author's European collection are several implements of 

 horn which probably served the same purpose. They are doubtless 

 to be found in every collection. They 

 are short, round, with a blunt point like 

 one's little finger. This tool is usually 

 of deer horn in its natural condition, 

 long- enough to have been held in the 

 hand, but is sometimes cut short, with a 

 possible tang- as for insertion in a handle. 

 Bone points are in every collection and 

 are well known to every prehistoric ar- 

 cha'ologist ; but they are sharply pointed 

 as if for awls or perforators of skin or tex- 

 tile fabrics. The foregoing is a different 

 implement and could never have served 

 as an awl. One could no more jjunch a 

 hole through a i)iece of skin with one of 

 these than he could with the point of his 

 finger, which it so much resembles. The 

 author is of the o[)inion that they may 

 have served as tlakers. Tools similar in 

 form are found of tiint. Sir John Evans 

 calls them fabricators or flaking tools' 

 (figs. 75, 7G). In France they have been 

 called ecrasoirs, but M. de Mortillet pre- 

 fers the name retouchoir, and says'^ that 

 their extremities are smoothed by use. 

 They served to flake by pressure (re- 

 touch) the flint implements. This opera- 

 tion had the effect of smoothing the ends 

 of the involved implement. In Le Musce 

 Prehistoriqtie (Plate XLV, figs. 411-418) are several of these imple- 

 ments, chiefly from the interior of France. Sir John Evans' discusses 

 these implements, but confesses his suggestions are by no means con- 

 clusive, and closes with the hope that future discoveries may throw 

 more light on the subject. He figures and describes several from 

 England, and says they are well known, and in Yorkshire are called 



Fiys. 75,76. 



KUNT FLAKER.S ( .') WITH SMOOTH ROONDED 

 ENDS, WORN BY USE. 



Yorkshire, Eugland. 



Evans, Aucient Stuue Impltuieuts, p. S6", fij;. 346. 



' Anfient Stone Implements, p. 367. 

 - L'Homme Prehistorlmie, p. 517. 

 'Ancient Stone Implements, pp. ot;7-H71. 



