Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    North American Stone Implements
    North American Stone Implements
    North American Stone Implements
    Ebook51 pages32 minutes

    North American Stone Implements

    By Charles Rau

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    North American Stone Implements

    Related to North American Stone Implements

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      An Ancient Mastodon Ignited a Debate Over Humans' Arrival in North America

      Dec 25, 2017

      "Oh my God," Richard Cerutti said to himself. He bent down to pick up a sharp, splintered bone fragment. Its thickness and weight told him that it belonged to an animal, a very big animal. His mind started to race. He was standing at the foot of a sl

      13 min read

    • Article

      Archæology

      Nov 4, 2021

      Archæology
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Mother Of All Accidents

      Feb 7, 2021

      The Mother Of All Accidents
      6 min read

    • Article

      High Plains Mammoth Hunters

      Dec 2, 2022

      High Plains Mammoth Hunters
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Day the Mesozoic Died

      Nov 14, 2019

      Built upon the slopes of Mount Ingino in Umbria, the ancient town of Gubbio boasts many well-preserved structures that document its glorious history. Founded by the Etruscans between the second and first centuries B.C., its Roman theater, Consuls Pal

      17 min read

    • Article

      The Day the Mesozoic Died: How the story of the dinosaurs’ demise was uncovered.

      Jan 21, 2016

      Built upon the slopes of Mount Ingino in Umbria, the ancient town of Gubbio boasts many well-preserved structures that document its glorious history. Founded by the Etruscans between the second and first centuries B.C., its Roman theater, Consuls Pal

      17 min read

    • Article

      The Mother of All Accidents

      Apr 21, 2021

      In 2001, Seth MacFarlane was the 27-year-old executive producer and creator of the not-yet-hit animated show Family Guy. Having broken into the entertainment big leagues at such a young age, MacFarlane was invited back in September to address his alm

      7 min read

    • Article

      Archæology

      Apr 21, 2022

      PAUL SIEVEKING digs up the latest discoveries, with a particular emphasis on skeletal remains The world’s best example of a Roman crucifixion has been found in the village of Fenstanton, next to a Roman road between two settlements (now Cambridge and

      5 min read

    • Article

      Archæology

      Aug 10, 2023

      Archæology
      3 min read

    • Article

      Wisdom Of The Ancients

      Oct 15, 2020

      Wisdom Of The Ancients
      5 min read

    • Article

      DIGS & DISCOVERIES

      Jun 11, 2020

      DIGS & DISCOVERIES
      8 min read

    • Article

      From Our Readers

      Feb 13, 2024

      Your article “Cave of Swords” (“Top 10 Discoveries of 2023,” January/February 2024), about the swords found in Israel, was interesting, but I question the identification of the swords as spathae. The spatha was a long sword, usually with 25 to 30 inc

      2 min read

    • Article

      Another Part Of The Stonehenge Mystery Has Been Unearthed Before Our Eyes | Charlotte Higgins

      Feb 16, 2021

      Connections between the great neolithic monument of Stonehenge and the hills of west Wales have been observed for centuries. Daniel Defoe, writing in the early 18th century about a stone circle in Pembrokeshire, remarked that it was “very like Stone-

      3 min read

    • Article

      Things We Learned This Month...

      Oct 28, 2021

      Hundreds of photographs documenting the excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1939 have been digitised and made available online for the first time. The rare pictures, captured by amateur photographers Mercie Lack and Barbara Wagstaff, were originally deposite

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Secrets Of The Stones

      Feb 17, 2022

      The Secrets Of The Stones
      11 min read

    • Article

      Britain's Buried Secrets

      Dec 28, 2022

      Britain's Buried Secrets
      10 min read

    • Article

      ‘Weird, Wonderful’: Rare Dig At Arthur’s Stone Writes New Story Of Neolithic Site

      Jul 22, 2022

      High above one of western Britain’s loveliest valleys, the silence is broken by the sound of gentle digging, scraping and brushing, along with bursts of excited chatter as another ancient feature is revealed or a curious visitor stops by to find out

      3 min read

    • Article

      Palissy The Potter

      Jan 27, 2022

      Palissy The Potter
      13 min read

    • Article

      Australia's Own Sea Serpent

      Aug 5, 2021

      Australia's Own Sea Serpent
      4 min read

    • Article

      Preliminaries

      Feb 14, 2022

      In the ancient world, slaves were meant to serve but to be invisible while doing it. Something of the awfulness of their daily existence has come to light in a sombre room at a villa located just outside Pompeii. The room is situated not far from the

      6 min read

    • Article

      Archæology

      Sep 7, 2023

      PAUL SIEVEKING catalogues the latest finds, including a stone phallus and a silver phalera An ancient clay tablet recovered by Sir Henry Layard in 1851 from the underground library of King Ashurbanipal in Kuyunjik (ancient Nineveh), Iraq, is known as

      5 min read

    • Article

      Archæology

      Nov 30, 2023

      Archæology
      3 min read

    • Article

      In Search Of The celtic Headhunters

      Mar 15, 2024

      The ancient Celts are hard to pin down precisely, since the term is a vague one that has been used in different ways by different people. For the Classical Greek and Roman authors, the Celts (or Gauls – the terms were often used interchangeably) comp

      6 min read

    • Article

      Hidden Histories

      Oct 26, 2023

      ON THE KALAMBO RIVER, OVERLOOKING A 235-metre waterfall bordering Zambia and Tanzania, a groundbreaking discovery has been made. It's one that changes the way we think about our ancestors and human culture. That's a huge statement, I know, but in thi

      2 min read

    • Article

      From The Editor

      Nov 26, 2020

      It turns out our Solar System is a pretty hospitable place. That’s been one of the major narratives of the last decade as probes and rovers have stretched out across space and got to know the planets and moons that surround us. Clearly Earth is somet

      1 min read

    Reviews for North American Stone Implements

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      North American Stone Implements - Charles Rau

      Project Gutenberg's North American Stone Implements, by Charles Rau

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: North American Stone Implements

      Author: Charles Rau

      Release Date: May 13, 2012 [EBook #39686]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NORTH AMERICAN STONE IMPLEMENTS ***

      Produced by K Nordquist, JoAnn Greenwood, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      NORTH AMERICAN STONE IMPLEMENTS.

      BY

      CHARLES RAU.

      REPRINTED FROM THE REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR 1872.

      WASHINGTON:

      GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

      1873.

      NORTH AMERICAN STONE IMPLEMENTS.

      By Charles Rau.

      The division of the European stone age into a period of chipped stone, and a succeeding one of ground or polished stone, or, into the palaeolithic and neolithic periods, seems to be fully borne out by facts, and is likely to remain an uncontroverted basis for future investigation in Europe. In North America chipped as well as ground implements are abundant; yet they occur promiscuously, and thus far cannot be referred respectively to certain epochs in the development of the aborigines of the country. Archæological investigation in North America, however, is but of recent date, and a careful examination of our caves and drift-beds possibly may lead to results similar to those obtained in Europe. When in the latter part of the world man lived contemporaneously with the now extinct large pachydermatous and carnivorous animals, he used unground flint tools of rude workmanship, which were superseded in the later stages of the European stone age, comprising the neolithic period, by more finished articles of flint and other stone, many of which were brought into final shape by the processes of grinding and polishing. In North America stone implements likewise have been found associated with the osseous remains of extinct animals; yet these implements, it appears, differed in no wise from those in use among the aborigines at the period of their first intercourse with the whites.

      In the year 1839, the late Dr. Albert C. Koch discovered in the bottom of the Bourbeuse River, in Gasconade County, Missouri, the remains of a Mastodon giganteus under very peculiar circumstances. The greater portion of the bones appeared more or less burned, and there was sufficient evidence that the fire had been kindled by human agency, and with the design of killing the huge creature, which had been found mired in the mud, and in an entirely helpless condition. The animal's fore and hind legs, untouched by the fire, were in a perpendicular position, with the toes attached to the feet, showing that

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1