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Title: Antiquities of the southern Indians, particularly of the Georgia tribes
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, Charles C. (Charles Colcock), 1831-1893
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ncluding this brief notice of the cuttingand piercing implements of the Southern Indians, itis proper to notice a class of tools—similar in generalfeatures to the ordinary hand-axes—made sometimesof slate, at other times of a hornblendic stone, againof diorite, and rarely of flint, whose edges are bluntand rounded, or square. They were, to all appear-ances, designed as smoothing or polishing stones (seeFigs. 6, 7, and 8, Plate XVI.), and may have beenused in dressing skins. Their edges are all wornvery smooth from constant attrition. The implementrepresented in Fig. 9, Plate XVI., typifies a largeclass, examples of which abound in the relic-beds onthe Savannah River. Their use is not well ascertained,but their flat surfaces are very smooth as though theyhad been constantly employed in rubbing. There are 1 The similarity between this implement and that figured by Mr. Evans on rage289 of his Ancient Stone Implements, etc., of Great Britain (London, 1872),is very striking. flate 1)7.
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AM. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHICCO. NY. ( OSBORNES PROCESS I DEIFT IMPLEMENTS. 293 also stout triangular-shaped flint articles, which may heregarded as primitive axes, as unfinished spear-heads,or as scrapers. This matter of classification is, to aconsiderable extent, arbitrary; and while in most in-stances we have no hesitancy in determining the usesand characters of various relics, we not infrequentlyencounter, specimens concerning whose specific employ-ment and accurate archaeological arrangement any thingmore than a suggestion ajypears unjustifiable. The implements we have been examining, were ob-tained from mounds, shell-heaps and relic-beds, gath-ered upon the sites of ancient villages and fishing-resorts, or ploughed up in cultivated fields. Beforebringing the present chapter to a close, we desire toallude to some rudely-chipped, triangular-shaped imple-ments found in Nacoochee Valley under circumstanceswhich seemingly assign to them a very remote anti-quity. In material, manner of const

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