The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
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The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2
Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King)
Indians of North America -- Antiquities; Stone age -- North America
“_Animal industries._—Arts and industries depending on the animal
kingdom include primarily hunting, fishing, trapping, and domestication.
The secondary arts involve cooking and otherwise preparing food; the
butchering and skinning of animals, skin-dressing in all its forms;
cutting garments, tents, boats, and hundreds of smaller articles, and
sewing them with sinew and other thread; working claws, horn, bone,
teeth, and shell into things of use, ornaments, and money; and work in
feathers, quills, and hair....
[Illustration:
FIG. 18. A device for holding stones in place while pressure was being
applied.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 19. Making flakes by means of lever pressure. This shows the
manner of utilizing a standing tree. (See Sellars’s article in
Chapter IV.)
]
“The artizans of both sexes were instinct with the esthetic impulse; in
one region they were devoted to quillwork, those of the next area to
carving wood and slate; the ones living across the mountains produced
whole costumes adorned with bead-work; the tribes of the central area
erected elaborate earthworks; workers on the Pacific Coast made
matchless basketry; those of the Southwest modeled and decorated pottery
in an endless variety of shapes and colored designs. The Indians north
of Mexico were generally well advanced in the simpler handicrafts, but
had nowhere attempted massive stone architecture.”
The Committee on Archæological Nomenclature presented its completed
report at the Baltimore meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, 1908. This was published in the _American Anthropologist_,
January-March, 1909, page 114. Pottery was classified first, but as I
begin with chipped implements I present the classification of pottery
last.
[Illustration:
FIG. 20. Showing strong massive shank for securing to a shaft or
handle.
]
[Illustration:
FIG. 21. First two objects beveled—the one to the left showing
strength of cutting-edge. The one to the right shows a different
mode of attachment. (See Sellars’s article, Chapter IV.)
]
CLASSIFICATION OF PREHISTORIC ARTIFACTS, MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON
NOMENCLATURE
ARTICLES IN STONE
_Chipped Stone_
I. Knives and projectile points.
Larger—5 cm. (2 inches) or more in length.
Smaller—less than 5 cm. (2 inches) in length.
Types.
1. Without stem.
(A) Without secondary chipping (flakes).
(B) With secondary chipping.
(a) Pointed.
(a´) At one end.
Base concave.
Base straight.
Base convex.
Sides convex.
One side convex, one side straight.
(b) Ends convex.
(b´) At both ends.
(c) More or less circular.
2. With stem.
(A) Stem expanding from base—with or without barbing.
(a) Base concave.
(b) Base straight.
(c) Base convex.
(B) Stem with sides parallel—with or without barbing.
(a) Base concave.
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