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PREHISTORY OF PANAMA VIEJO BIESE 



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Figure 7. — Stone celts. 



Figure 6, e, represented in the collection by two examples, shows a 

 more or less standard wedge-shaped celt, polished in the lower three- 

 fom'ths. The celt in figure 6, d, is composed of a somewhat more 

 loosely textured basalt and has vertical edge faces so that only the 

 distal end is a cutting edge and the successive cross sections are 

 progressively larger rectangles which have very slightly bowed sides. 

 It has a diagonal cutting edge like some of those also found at Sitio 

 Conte, and is smoothly polished throughout. 



The remaining two celts, of which one is illustrated (fig. 6, c), are 

 small, dense, dark black basaltic material, wedge-shaped and given a 

 high polish throughout. The cutting edges are quite sharp and with- 

 out evidence of use. One of these was found inside a small pottery 

 vessel described under "Ceramics" (pi. 10, h). 



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