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is surprisinii'l}^ small, and the question has often been raised in vain 

 as to Avhether any other kind of chipping tool was, or could have 

 been, used. 



Fig. 51. Examples of blades broken under the hammerstone when nearly finished. 



Throughout the bowlder-bearing districts of the Middle Atlantic 

 States the thousands of workshops bear testimony 

 to the now well-established fact that the thin leaf 

 blade (fig. oS) Avas the almost exclusive designed 

 product of the quarry sho])s and the parent of the .several specialized 

 foi'ins (fig. r)4), and a study of the chipped implements found in 

 countless numbers on village sites and elsewhere fullv confirms this 



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