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eiitly destroys their effectiveness as a itrojectile. It is suggested that 

 they may have beeu fastened to a short handle after the fashion of a 

 knife and then used as concave scrapers; tliat is to say, for the same 

 ])urpose as the inii)lements in Plate 26. The convex edge may have 

 been used as a knife. 



The long, straight implement (Plate 39, fig. 15) is quite different from 

 these, and yet is asymmetric and to l)e placed in this class. It belongs 

 to the Solutrt'cn epoch of the Paleolitliic pt^riod and represents the 

 earliest examples of supposed arrowpoints or spearheads, although 

 they may have been, and probably were, used as harpoons; they como 

 from the well-known (tavern district on the Vczcre (Dordognei, France. 

 The U. S. National Museum (Wilson collection) possesses two speci- 

 mens of the same style, but smaller. The Solutreen epoch was prover- 

 bial ibr the excellence of its Hint chipping, and these are representative 

 examples. 



The Steiner colle(;tion from Burke County, Georgia, contains a num- 

 ber of asymmetric arrowpoints or spearheads. Figs. IG and 17, Plate 

 39, and fig. 195 belong to that collection. They are of the gray flint 

 with yellow patina so common in that country, of which we have so 

 many representatives in the Steiner and McGlashan collections. The 

 remark above made as to the impossibility of their use as projectiles 

 and the probability of their employment as scrai»ers or knives with 

 short handles, api)lies to these specimens. Others shown in the plate 

 as belonging to this class have great similarity with the implements to 

 be described in the succeeding chapter on knives. Their asymmetric 

 and lopsided form, the characteristics of their point, and the sharpened 

 edge upon the one side only, the stem suitable for handling, are all 

 evidence of the non-employment of these implements as arrows or 

 spears, or as projectiles. 



CLASS I. — cnuous I'ORMS. (Plate 39, fig. II; Pbiti' 40.) 



There have been discovered in different (;ountries, implements which 

 have resemblance to arrowpoints and spearheads in material, method 

 and style of manufacture, and general appearance, though by reason of 

 the peculiarity of their form are totally unfitted for any projectile pur- 

 pose and, indeed, it is impossible tliat they should have served as such. 

 Plate 39, fig. 14, shows one of this class, and Plate 40 represents a 



