ARROWPOINTS, SPEARHEADS, AND KNIA'FS. 917 



CLASS It. — siiori.KKKi.n nvv not i'.ahhi d. (Flati!34.) 



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Implements of this class are more numerous tliun tliose of any 

 other division. There is this pronounced diflereiu e between them and 

 iuiy others we have described. The implements have two parts with 

 ditierent functions: (1) the blade which com- 

 l)rises the point and edges, and is for piercing or 

 cutting, and (2) the stem, for insertion in a 

 shaft or handle. 

 % We can not imagine the 



*^^ use of the stem to an ar- 



rowpoint or spearhead 

 which would not be in- 

 tended for insertion in a 

 shaft or handle. The leaf- 

 shaped ni;iy or may not 

 have been inserted in a 

 handle; many of them we 

 know were not. It was the 

 opinion of Dr. Rau that in 

 certain specimens the base 

 had served as a chisel or 



scrai)er. But the stem had no other function 

 than for insertion in a shaft or handle. This 

 iunctiou was subject to great variations, and, as 

 we shall see, there were many kinds of stems 

 and great variability in the mode of attachment. 

 Fig. 145 is one of the few specimens of ancient 

 arrowheads found attached to its shaft or handle. 

 It comes fioni the j)eat moss of Giessboden, Switz- 

 erland, and isligured in Keller's Lake Dwellings.' 

 The handle is broken so that it is uncertain 

 whether the implement was arrow or knife, but 

 the bast (tr hber with which it was lashed is still 

 discernible. Similar specimens have been found 

 occasionally in Ireland and in Germany. 



Figs. 146 and 147 are the simi)lest and most pronounced of Class 

 B, stemmed and shouldered, but not barbed. The stem is straight, 

 with parallel edges and straight base; the shoulders are square and at 



Fig. 145. 



PREHISTOKIC STONE AKROW- 

 POINT INSERTED IN SHAFT AND 

 TIED WITH FIBER. 



Fouiid hi poat-moss of Giess- 

 boileu, Switzerlaud. 



Fig. 146. 



STEMMED ARROWPOINT OF 

 HI.ACK FLINT, SHOULDERED 

 BUT NOT BARBED. 



Plainflt'ld, W i n il L a in 



County, Coniiectitiit. 



Divisiou III, Cla.s3 B. 



5gx2ixt. 



Cat No. 1MII14. r.S.N.M. 



' Volume II, Plate XXXIX, No. 1;"), Jroiu which it is reproduced iu Evans's Ancient 

 Stone Implements, p. 364, fig. 343. 



