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MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS MADE OF STONE. 



creeks, as though the net had been lost or forgotten, or possibly carried 

 away by a freshet. The perishable net having long since rotted away, 

 Fig. 76. the girdled pebbles alone are left 



to mark an ancient fishing-station. 

 On the other hand, single speci- 

 mens found on the upland show, 

 as a rule, considerable battering 

 of the edges, and thus as clearly 

 indicate that they were used as 

 hammers, while it is possible 

 that some of the more elaborately 

 wrought specimens were weap- 

 ons, especially those that are oval 

 rather than circular in outline. 

 Grooved stone. Grooved pebbles, such as are here 



figured, are described by Evans* from Great Britain, by Nilssonf from 

 Scandinavia, by JonesJ from Georgia, by Rau§ from Rhode Island, and 

 fig. 77. by the writer || from New Jersey. 



Fig. 78 represents a simple hammer-stone, 

 with no other trace of usage or work upon it. 

 than the well-battered edges. It in no way 

 differs from like specimens found along the 

 Atlantic coast. From their abundance on the 

 former sites of arrowhead- maker's workshops it 

 would appear that these small hammer-stones 

 were in some way used in the manufacture of 

 Grooved stone. chipped-flint implements; at least their associa- 



tion with cores, chips, broken specimens, and unfinished arrow-heads leads 

 to this conclusion The specimen here figured and other smaller ones ac- 

 companying it are all of a hard stone, but like many of -the Dos Pueblos 

 specimens appear to have been subjected to great heat. Those that are 



"Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, p. 211, fig. 159. London, 1872. 

 t Stone Age in Scandinavia, pi. xi, fig. 216. London, 1868. 

 t Antiquities of the Southern Indians, pi. xix, figs. 7 and 8. New York, 1873. 

 § Smithsonian Contributions, No. 287, page 27, fig. 107, Washington, 1876. 

 II American Naturalist, vol. vi, p. 226, fig. 83. Salem, Mass., 1872. 



