The Stone Age in North America, Vol. 1

About this eBook

Author

Moorehead, Warren K. (Warren King), 1866-1939

Title

The stone age in North America, vol. 1 of 2

Original Publication

Boston: Houghton Mifflin company, 1910.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

E011: History: America: America

Subject

Stone age -- North America

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74170

Release Date

August 1, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE STONE AGE IN NORTH AMERICA AN ARCHÆOLOGICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE IMPLEMENTS, ORNAMENTS, WEAPONS, UTENSILS, ETC., OF THE PREHISTORIC TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED FULL-PAGE PLATES AND FOUR HUNDRED FIGURES ILLUSTRATING OVER FOUR THOUSAND DIFFERENT OBJECTS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO “THE STONE AGE”
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.CHAPTER I WHY A CLASSIFICATION BASED ON ARCHÆOLOGICAL EVIDENCE ALONE IS NEEDED
6. 6.CHAPTER II PLANS FOR AN ARCHÆOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION — CLASSIFICATION OF PREHISTORIC ARTIFACTS, MADE BY THE COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE — ARTICLES IN STONE — ARTICLES IN CLAY
7. 7.CHAPTER III THE CLASSIFICATION — QUARRYING MATERIALS — THE BEGINNINGS OF CULTURE — QUARRIES
8. 8.CHAPTER IV CHIPPED IMPLEMENTS — HOW MANUFACTURED
9. 9.CHAPTER V CHIPPED IMPLEMENTS — TYPES WITHOUT STEMS
10. 10.CHAPTER VI CHIPPED IMPLEMENTS — PROJECTILE POINTS WITH STEMS EXPANDING FROM BASE OR WITH SIDES PARALLEL — ARROWS, BOWS, AND QUIVERS
11. 11.CHAPTER VII CHIPPED IMPLEMENTS — STEM CONTRACTING FROM BASE — A MASTER AT FLINT-CHIPPING
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII UNUSUAL FORMS IN CHIPPED OBJECTS
13. 13.CHAPTER IX AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
14. 14.CHAPTER X FLINT CELTS AND AXES
15. 15.CHAPTER XI SCRAPERS — TYPES WITH ONE OR MORE SCRAPING EDGES WITHOUT OR WITH NOTCH (INCLUDING CIRCULAR)
16. 16.CHAPTER XII CHIPPED IMPLEMENTS — PERFORATORS — CACHED FLINT OBJECTS
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII HAMMER-STONES AND HAMMERS
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV CONCLUSIONS AS TO CHIPPED IMPLEMENTS
19. 19.CHAPTER XV GROUND STONE — POLISHED STONE HATCHETS OR CELTS—THE CLASSIFICATION OF HATCHETS, ADZES, GOUGES, AND AXES
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI GROUND STONE — THE ADZE AND THE GOUGE
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII GROUND STONE — GROOVED STONE AXES — Other Classes — FLUTED STONE AXES — CONCLUSIONS AS TO CELTS, ADZES, GOUGES AND AXES
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII GROUND STONE—PROBLEMATICAL FORMS — THE GORGET AND ORNAMENTS AS SEEN BY EARLY EXPLORERS
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX GROUND STONE—PROBLEMATICAL FORMS — THE GORGETS — Broken and worked Gorgets
24. 24.CHAPTER XX GROUND STONE — WINGED PROBLEMATICAL FORMS
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI GROUND STONE—PROBLEMATICAL FORMS — PICK AND CRESCENT, THE BOAT-SHAPED, BAR-FORMS, ETC.—CONCLUSIONS — BARS AND BAR-AMULETS — CONCLUSIONS AS TO GORGETS, WINGED OBJECTS, ETC.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII GROUND STONE—PROBLEMATICAL FORMS — THE SPUD-SHAPED IMPLEMENT — Classification
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII GROUND STONE—PROBLEMATICAL FORMS — PLUMMET-SHAPED STONES: STONE RINGS
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV GROUND STONE—PROBLEMATICAL FORMS — BICAVES, OR DISCOIDAL STONES, TUBES, ETC. — TUBULAR FORMS

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