BY FRITZ NOETLING, M.A., PH.D., ETC. / 



distance from the place where he found it to his camp? 

 Can it be possible that it was desired to produce 

 nothing but an implement of a certain size and weight, 

 and that all other flakes, however useful they may other- 

 wise have been, were rejected till the desired object was 

 obtained ? If this be the case, and I can see no other 

 satisfactory explanation derived from the evidence of 

 the core and the rejected flakes, we have to consider all 

 the archaeolithic implements used by the Aborigines as 

 a produce of the moment, manufactured then and there 

 for the purpose for which they were required, and, 

 having served their end, to be rejected without being 

 applied to further use. This would to a certain extent 

 explain the rather astonishing number of archaeolithes 

 we find on the camping grounds, some of which seem to 

 be very serviceable still. 



