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STONE ART. 



fETH ANN .13 



Fig. 231.— Stemmed 

 chipped flint. 



Fig. 232.— Stemmed 

 chipped flint, thin. 



K. Straiglit or couvex edges (a few serrated or beveled) ; base straight, 

 sometiines polished; notched iu from the corners so as to give sharp 

 barbs, with wide stem expanding by straight lines. 

 Medium size. Illustrated iu figure 231 

 (Bradley county, Tennessee). Found 

 in eastern Tennessee; southwestern 

 Illinois; Scioto valley; Kanawha val- 

 ley; South Carolina: and about Sa- 

 vannah, Georgia. 



L. Very thin ; well worked ; usually 

 quite symmetrical; base straight or 

 slightly concave; stem expanding by 

 curved lines ; with shoulders or barbs ; 

 base with sharp tangs. Some specimens quite sleuder, others almost 

 as wide as long. Few are above two inches in length. The edge is 

 sometimes a broken line instead of a regular curve. The form is 

 shown in figures 232 and 233, representing specimens 

 from Lawrence county, Ohio, and 

 Loudon county, Tennessee, respect- 

 ji ively. Others are from Kanawha 

 il valley; Miami and Scioto valleys, 

 Ohio; eastern Tennessee; western 

 and central North Carolina ; Union 

 county, Mis.sissippi ; northeastern 

 Kentucky; and southwestern Illi- 

 nois. 



M. Couvex edges; usually quite 

 symmetric; base generally straight, 



Fig. 233.— Stemmed 

 chipped flint. 



although sometimes convex or con- 



Fig. 234.— Stemmed 

 chipped flint 



cave; stem expanding by straight or curved lines, and notched in from 

 the corners by a narrow notch whose sides are parallel. Sometimes 



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beveled (or feathered). The barb as -well as the 

 notch of the same width throughout its entire 

 length. The type (figure 234) is from Knox county, 

 Ohio, and similar forms come from central Ohio; 

 Kanawha valley ; western North Carolina; southern 

 Wisconsin; southwestern Illinois; South Carolina; 

 eastern Tennessee; and Savannah, Georgia. 



X. Straight,or rarely convex, edges; base straight 

 or slightly curved, with rounded corners; notched 

 in on the edges above the corners, with sharji barbs. 

 Nearly every specimen is beveled, and some are ser- 

 rated. Base polished iu many of them even when 

 slightly concave. A good example from lloss 

 county, Ohio, is represented in figure 235. Others 

 are from Miami and Scioto valleys and elsewhere 

 in Ohio, as well as from Kanawha valley ; eastern Tennessee ; north- 



FlG. 235. — stemmed 

 chipped flint. 



