156 THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY: 
_ there is just this difference between modern or prehistoric 
ers and the implements we here designate as hatchets, t.2., h 
former have one flat, smooth surface, the plane of a single cleav- 
age, the split of a single blow; while the hatchets have an edge, 
bevelled from each side, which are both equally well and uniformly 
chipped. ‘These more elaborate ‘‘hatchets,” however, may h 
been used as scrapers. The more usual sizes of hatchets are 
illustrated by figures 25 and 26. These give the average outl 
also of a series of nearly thirty gathered from one field. The 
should be no objection to the proposition that they were used 
cutting tools. We have alread 
that axes are equally small. 
figures one from Ireland, in “En 
historic Times,” fig. 98, which is} ; 
small; and on page 182, speaking 
Swiss axes, says, ‘‘ with few € 
tions they were small, es 
when compared with the mag 
specimens from Denmark ; in 
they varied from six inches to on 
while the cutting edge had genera 
a width of from fifteen to 
lines ;” and again on page 98 
ing of so-called ‘‘axes” OF! 
of the Kjokkenmoddings, says 
are . . . . rudely triangular 
rangular in shape, with a cu 
at the broader end, and t 
half to five and a half m 
| ESTIS length, with a breadth of onè 
half to two and a half inches.” Now the New Jersey 
differ only in this, that both sides are chipped, but otherwis 
are identical. As we have abundant reasons for knowing 
mussels were a favorite food, they may have been used to 
their shells, having been found with heaps of half bur 
shells; and certainly, inserted in a handle by securel, 
the smaller or tapering end therein, they would make & 
weapon. A tomahawk, for instance, to be worn in à be 
in close combat, when the bow failed or the quiver of 
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