HISTORY IN TOOLS— PETRIE. 



571 



We now turn to the other historical point of view, the forms which 

 are widely spread, because they were required. In Egypt at about 



CYPRUS SICILY 



Q) 



BRABANT 



37 to 51.— Forms of tools alike in East or West. 



52 to 60.— Four variants of Sicilian razor, separately adopted in the North. 



5,500 B. C. there suddenly appeared a very large wide-splayed adz 

 (fig. 38), different from all that came before or developed later. The 



