142 STONE IMPLEMENTS (etii.ans.15 



Slit(riti:Hrd bowlders, embracing cxteiiipoiizfil clio))])infr or bonc-bri'ak- 

 iiij; tools, occur on all river sites wlicre bowldiMs were at hand. The 

 ed};c or i)oint was made liy removin};' one or more thikes, which reijiured 

 but a nionient's work. Thej' were not transported far beyond the limits 

 of the bowl(ler-i)r()diicin{j area. 



Notclu<l and Kliiirjiened howldcrs, used as improvised axes and picks 

 or boes, are closely related to the preceding, but intended to be hafted. 

 Their transportation wa.sbut slight, as they are rarely found far beyond 

 the range of deposits of heavy bowlders. Half a dozen blows with a 

 hammerstone were suflKcient to fashion one of these objects. They were 

 probably not sutliciently essential or valued to be transjjorted, save in 

 exceptional cases. l»lunt-cnd liammer-like objects notched for haftiiig 

 are distributed spar.sely over corresponding areas. 



Pirkx toid ehixcls, uacd for working steatite, traveled but little beyond 

 the (piarries and the neighboring villages where the finishing was done. 

 These consist of rude, sharp stones, of axes and celts worked over or 

 "upset" to secure good points and edges, and of thick leaf shape chisels 

 redu('ed to api)roxiniate shape by tlaking and then ground to an edge 

 at one or both ends. 



Net sinhrrs are not common. The rude specimens were probably 

 carried back and forth to some extent along the streams, and small 

 well-finished pieces may have been carried everywhei-e. 



rextles, cylindrical stones symmetrically shajjcd and well finished by 

 battering, were apparently carried from place to place and perhaps for 

 long distances. Knder sjjecimens were extemi)orized and not trans- 

 l)orted. 



Hammerstones — Many of these objects are improvised from bowlders 

 and were quickly cast aside, as already indicated, but others were 

 carried far out into the bowlderless region. 



Sodpstoiic res.sels are widely distributed, reaching in rather rare cases 

 points .TO miles or more from the highland in which the material was 

 (luarried. 



Groored tixts, celts, scnipers, ilriUs, Iciiin-s, spearheads, arroirpoiuts, 

 as well as pipes, ceremonial stoucs, and ornaments were freely trans- 

 ported, covering the full range of the peoples employing them, and 

 not infrequentlj', no doubt, jiassing from district to district through 

 other hands. 



Rejects resulting from failures in specialization of transported ibrms 

 and of attempts at remodeling of worn or broken tools are to be tbund 

 everywhere, but rejects of the roiighingout processes are not greatly 

 atfected by the transporting agencies, remaining on the shop sites, as 

 lias been shown. 



DISTRIBUTION I5V PARTICULAR SITES 



Some of the eccentricities of distribution may be illustrated by an 

 examination of the art contents of sites having varying relations to 

 the dejiosits of raw material. 



