VARIETIES OF CHIPPED FLINTS. 



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figure 179 (from Loudou county, Tennessee). Other specimens are 

 from eastern Tennessee; central and western North Carolina; Kanawha 

 valley; Keokuk, Iowa; Miami and Scioto valleys, and central Ohio; 

 eastern, southern, and southwestern Wisconsin; northeastern Arkansas; 

 central and northeastern Kentucky; 

 northwestern Georgia, and Savan- 

 nah; southwestern Illinois; and 

 Coosa valley, Alabama. 



I>. Narrow and thick; up to 6 

 inches long; convex base; edges 

 straight to the base, where they 

 expand somewhat, giving the imple- 

 ment a bell shape. The largest 

 specimen in the lot (figure 180) has 

 both faces polished almost the en- 

 tire length, a feature absent from 

 all the others. This example is from 

 Caldwell county. North Carolina. 

 The form is found also in central 

 and western North Carolina, east- 

 ern Tennessee, northeastern Ken- 

 tucky; Kanawha valley ; and north- 

 eastern Arkansas. Few of the flints 

 Fig. i79.-chipped flint. Qg^ur in the collection except from 



. , ■, f ■ r. • 1 , r ^■<'- 180.— Chipped flint, 



the two localities first mentioned, where they are aomewhat buii-shape. 

 moderately abundant. 



E. Elliptical outline; some very thin, others resembling celts. One 

 from Kanawha valley has the projecting facets and ridges on one face 

 ^"'iTSiw. very smooth from use. those on the other being still 

 sharp, as when first chipped. The one figured has the 

 edge worn smooth entirely around, ^ T" v 

 seemingly from use as a cutting tool, 

 the ends being most worn. Represent- 

 ed by figiu'e 181 (from Dane county, 

 Wisconsin). Found also in southern [ 

 and southwestern Wisconsin; eastern 

 Tennessee; northeastern Arkansas; 

 central and western North Carolina; 

 Brown county, Illinois; Kanawha val- 

 ley; and South Carolina. 



F. With the outline a continuous 

 curve from the point entirely around, 

 regularly rounded. This 

 is the model of the pointed oval or leaf- 

 shape flint. Sometimes one face is flatter than the other, being less 

 worked, or in a few cases the unaltered flat side of a flake. Usually 

 they are quite symmetrical, but occasionally one edge is more curved 

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Fio. 181.— Chipped flip haep hf>iii ir 

 flint,enipticalout. ^'^^ "^^^ Oeilli; 

 line. 



Fia, 182.— Chipped 

 flint, leaf-shape or 

 oval outline. 



