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ABORIGINAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES PART I 



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The intractability of the stone made faihire the rule rather than 

 the exception and resulted in a vast body of par- 



Rejectage tially worked, defective, and broken forms. Breakage 



took place at every stage of the shaping work, and the 



refuse shows plainly, as already noted, that the only form sought to be 



Fig. 49. Relation of a roughed-out, broken blade to the original bowlder. 



elaborated in the quarry shops was the thin leaf-blade form best 

 suited for the manufacture of the ordinary chipped implements. 

 A series of forms representing various successive steps in the progress 

 of blade elaboration from the removal of the first flake to the comple- 

 tion of the knife blades and projectile points is shown in figure 50. In 

 figure 51 are shown typical examples of the blades broken under the 

 hammer strokes at the very moment of completion. The parts of 

 many of such left on the shop sites where dropped when broken 

 were gathered and joined as indicated in the figure. Round 

 bowlders of tough material were used as hammerstones, and a large 

 bowlder employed as an anvil appears in figure 52. Well developed 

 or specialized implements of these classes are rare on the site. It 

 should be noted that the number of well specialized hammers found 



