SMALL CHIPI'ED FLINTS. 



149 



Fio. 196.— Chipped 

 flint, short, convex 

 oiljrea. 



Fio. 195.— Cliippe 

 hiul, small. 



B. With straight ba.ses. These are all small, the broad ones being 

 short and the long ones slender. Most of them arc both short and 

 narrow. 



1. Convex edges as in figures 195 (McMinu county, Tennessee) and 196 

 ( Bradley county, Tennessee). The form is widely distributed, being 

 represented by specimens from eastern Tennessee; 

 northeastern, southwestern, and southeastern Arkansas ; fipsrs??^^:^ 

 Scioto valley, Ohio; northeastern Ken- 

 tucky ; northwestern Georgia and Savan- 

 nah; Kanawha valley; Union county, 

 Mississippi; Holt county, Missouri; 

 northeastern Alabama, and Coosa valley 

 in the same state; southern and south- 

 western Wisconsin ; and western North 

 Carolina. 



2. Straight edges. Exemplified by the specimen 

 shown in figure 197, from McMinn county, Tennessee. 

 Found also in eastern Tennessee; northeastern Arkan- 

 sas; Coosa valley, Alabama; Union county, Missis- 

 sippi; Kanawha valley; Miami and Scioto valleys, 

 Ohio; eastern, southern, and southwestern Wisconsin; western and 

 central Iforth Carolina; Bartow county and 

 Savannah, Georgia; South Carolina, and 

 northeastern Kentucky. 



3. Concave edges, as in figure 198 (from 

 Bledsoe county, Tennessee). Other exam- 

 ples of this class are from eastern Tennes- 

 - Chipped S66; Scioto valley, Ohio; northeastern and fio. i98.-chipped 

 flint, triangular, southwestern Arkansas; Kanawha valley, edge's''''"'^''^ 

 West Virginia; northeastern Kentucky; western and central North 

 Carolina; northeastern Alabama; southwestern Illinois; and Savan- 

 nah, Georgia. 



G. Convex bases. Less abundant than the preced- 

 ing, and the forms representing it are less variable. Its 

 sub-groups are as follows: 



1. Convex edges. Some of these have a slight reverse 

 curve at the base, giving a slight barb or shoulder. A 

 few are widest at or near the middle, with bases some- 

 whatpointed,butmost of them are widestat thejunctiou 

 of the base and edges. They are mostly of the leaf- 

 shaped type, but quite small. Figure 199 (Mississippi 

 county, Arkansas) is a good example. Others are fi-om 

 northeastern and southwestern Arkansas ; northeastern 

 Alabama and Coosa valley; Kanawha valley, West F19. i99.- 



•^ ' »^ ' Hint, (^on 



Virginia; eastern Tennessee; western and central North 



Carolina; northwestern Georgia; eastern Wisconsin; southwestern 



Illinois, and Miami valley, Ohio. 



Fig, 



-Chipped 



flint, convex base. 



