Van Rensselaer, Stephen, Newark, N. J.

Webster, R. T., Rochester, N. Y.

West, G. A., Milwaukee, Wis.

Whelpley, H. M., St. Louis, Mo.

Williams, Professor E. H., Jr., Woodstock, Vt.

Wing, E. T. S., Portland, Maine.

Young, Col. B. H., Louisville, Ky.

CONTENTS

I.Why a Classification based on Archæological Evidence alone is needed[1]
II.Plans for an Archæological Classification[10]
Classification of prehistoric artifacts, made by the Committee on Nomenclature[23]
Articles in stone[23]
Articles in clay[26]
III.The Classification[31]
Quarrying materials[31]
The beginnings of culture[33]
Quarries[34]
IV.Chipped Implements[48]
How manufactured[48]
V.Chipped Implements[80]
Types without stems[80]
VI.Chipped Implements[99]
Projectile points with stems expanding from base or with sides parallel[99]
Arrows, bows, and quivers[103]
VII.Chipped Implements[127]
Stem contracting from base[127]
A master at flint-chipping[135]
VIII.Unusual Forms in Chipped Objects[154]
IX.Agricultural Implements[175]
X.Flint Celts and Axes[186]
XI.Scrapers[198]
Types with one or more scraping edges, without or with notch (including circular)[198]
XII.Chipped Implements[210]
Perforators[210]
Cached flint objects[216]
XIII.Hammer-Stones and Hammers[222]
XIV.Conclusions as to Chipped Implements[232]
XV.Ground Stone[251]
Polished stone hatchets or celts—the classification of hatchets, adzes, gouges, and axes[251]
XVI.Ground Stone[273]
The adze and the gouge[273]
XVII.Ground Stone[287]
Grooved stone axes[287]
Fluted stone axes[316]
Conclusions as to celts, adzes, gouges, and axes[322]
XVIII.Ground Stone—Problematical Forms[329]
The gorget and ornaments as seen by early explorers[329]
XIX.Ground Stone—Problematical Forms[362]
The gorgets[362]
Broken and worked gorgets[362]
XX.Ground Stone[376]
Winged problematical forms[376]
XXI.Ground Stone—Problematical Forms[402]
Pick and crescent, the boat-shaped, bar-forms, etc.[402]
Bars and bar-amulets[402]
Conclusions as to gorgets, winged objects, etc.[410]
XXII.Ground Stone—Problematical Forms[418]
The spud-shaped implement[418]
Classification[420]
XXIII.Ground Stone—Problematical Forms[431]
Plummet-shaped stones: stone rings[431]
XXIV.Ground Stone—Problematical Forms[443]
Bicaves, or discoidal stones, tubes, etc.[443]
Tubular forms[453]

THE STONE AGE IN NORTH AMERICA