976 The American Naturalist. [November, 
Judged by the American quarry standard, certain of the 
above-mentioned ruder French forms (Fig. 3, might be 
classed as “rejects” thrown aside by the Drift Man in the fash- 
ioning of his finer blades (A and B). 
The European neolithic quarry of Spiennes, like the Ameri- 
can quarries, illustrates the production of “ wasters” in the 
fashioning of large stone implements. But, in its more 
specialized results, the chipped celt and the long, narrow blade, 
FIG. 8. -$ 
Stone discs (resembling the * Teshoas" seen by Dr. Leidy in use among the Fort 
Bridger Shoshones as hide scrapers, in 1870) and river pebbles from which similar 
discs have been chipped. Found at Indian surface village sites in Delaware and Sus- 
quehanna Valleys in 1892. 
it offers no resemblance to the leaf-shaped “ hache ” (Fig. 3, B) 
and the massive-ended * coup de poing" (Fig. 3, A) of the 
Somme drift. 
hile making these comparisons, we have realized that the 
light thrown upon the subject by the study of American quar- 
ries, important as it is, by no means settles the manner by 
