206 THE STONE AGE IN NEW JERSEY. 
some animal or bird, and so secured unharmed for future use. 
Theorizing in this way, we believe, without reserve, that this form 
was exclusively used as arrowheads. 
A decided variation from the square tanged arowhai 
‘trated by Fig. 46 which represents a large arrowhead, admirably | 
chipped from flint, or a bluish gray mineral resembling it. While 
we have occasionally met with specimens like it in our own neigli- 
borhood, it is really a ‘‘sea-shore” form and was probably largely 
used in shooting or harpooning fish. Along the shore of pie 
ware Bay and in Delaware, near the break-water, and in = 
Fig. 46. Fig. 47. 
oe Natural size. Natural size. 
_ localities, it is the prevailing form. Three inches long, 
sevén-eighths in width, it has a very acute point, 
but little resistance to the water. The tang is s0 
mit of its being securely fastened to a shaft, andy 
, moved. The specimen is beautifully reproduced in ev! 
but length, in quartz specimens. In quartz, this style p 
and its size shows it was used only as an arrowhead, i 
upland hunting. 
