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include a wider range of stone artefacs, typified by well-chipped 

 arrow-points, spear-heads, knives, and scrapers of flint or quartz, 

 and by the ground and polished axes, chisels, pestles, mortars, and 

 other implements of greenstone and similar tough or workable 

 rock. The paleoliths, as defined above, were interpreted as the 

 work of an earlier and less cultured people, while the neoliths were 

 known to have been the implements and weapons of the natives of 

 the continent when first invaded by Europeans. It is to be noted 

 that the phase of the stone art designated "neolithic" was dominant 

 on the continent until recent times, and is scarcely yet extinct. 



Holmes l has shown that the early inhabitants of the country, 

 like the later Indians, went habitually to gravel-beds and to out- 



Fig- 545- A series of forms illustrating progressive steps in the manufacture 

 of arrow-points from quartz pebbles obtained mainly from shops and village-sites, 

 near Anacostia, D. C. (Holmes.) 



crops of appropriate rock to procure the raw material for their stone 

 artefacs, and that it was their custom to test and to rough-out the 

 material on the ground, leaving the chips and rejected material 

 scattered about when the rough work was done. The more delicate 

 work of shaping the rough material into implements was apparently 

 done as need required, at their villages or at other convenient places 



1 Holmes, W. H., A Stone Implement Workshop, Am. Anthropologist, Vol. 

 Ill, 1890, pp. 1-26; Review of the Evidence Relative to Auriferous Gravel Man in 

 California, Smith. Rept. 1900, pp. 417-472; Stone Implements of the Potomac- 

 Chesapeake Tidewater, Ann. Rept. Bureau of Eth., 1893-94, pp. 1-152, and Jour. 

 Geol., Vol. I. 



