164 THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU. 
made with a point or style. A whorl (N.K. 60), concave on the top, from the 
lower strata, is decorated on the edge with little lines (fig. 347; plate 42, fig. 13); 
so also are the whorls from the middle strata (N.K. 192; fig. 348; plate 42, fig. 9; 
and N.K. 225; fig. 349; plate 42, fig. 12). 
Combinations of pricked points and line patterns are 
found on two whorls from the middle strata (N.K. 122; fig. 
350; plate 42, figs. 5 and 14; and N.K. 191; fig. 351; plate 42, 
fig. 10). 
In isolated cases it was possible to determine with cer- 
tainty a white incrustation of the incised ornamentation on 
whorls. But in no case was importance attached to a sys- 
tematic grouping of the patterns. Interest in design or in 
the varying of the patterns does not yet make itself felt. The 
only essential differences are in technique. The clay whorls 
found in the upper strata add little 
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come from mixed layers and may 
also belong to the remains of the 
older culture. 
Flint implements.—Worked flint 
implements occur in all layers of 
the North Kurgan and are especially 
361 (0.5) abundant in the middle and lower 
strata. For the most part they are flakes of flint which were worked and used 
as knives or long scrapers. A small flint implement (fig. 352) was found as a 
burial gift among the bronze and lead ornaments grouped under N.K. 185, with 
a skeleton in terrace II at +22 feet 5 inches. A beautifully worked long scraper 
(N.K. 249; fig. 353; plate 42, fig. 20) 364 (0.5) 362 (0.5) 
comes from the lowest culture-strata. [) 
To the middle strata belongs a one- 
edged knife (N.K. 162; fig. 354; plate 
42, fig. 19), from terrace vil between 
+23 and +24feet. Two-edged knives 
with well-worked ends and traces of 
use on both edges are shown in N.K. 
16 (fig. 355; plate 42, fig. 18), from the 9660.5) / 
east pit in Komorof’s trench, and N.K. ( i ©) e 
101 (fig. 356; plate 42, fig. 16), from i 363(%0.5) 
terrace v between +28 and +32 feet. i: 
In the last one both ends are well 365 (x3) 
worked. N.K. 7, 0n the other hand, is a two-edged knife with traces of use on 
one side (fig. 357; plate 42, fig. 17). It is from the west pit of Komorof’s trench. 
That these flint implements were not imported, but were made by hand on 
the spot, is shown by the abundant flakes of flint which occur as refuse of the 


to our knowledge. Besides, they\ 
