The Weathering of Aboriginal Stone Artifacts, Vol. 1: A Consideration of the Paleoliths of Kansas, Illustrated by 20 Figures and 19 Half-Tone Plates (

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Excerpt from The Weathering of Aboriginal Stone Artifacts, Vol. 1: A Consideration of the Paleoliths of Kansas, Illustrated by 20 Figures and 19 Half-Tone PlatesNo one, reading American literature devoted to stone artifacts, can fail to notice the paucity of de scriptions and discussions made from the geologist's point of view, that too when the nature of the speci mens and their environments were more or less geo logical, and when a careful examination by a compe tent geological observer would have added materially to their significance and to their value. The archeolo gists of America have usually not been equipped with geological training. They have gathered, with great assiduity a vast number and variety of aboriginal im plements, and have assigned them in many cases to their supposed uses. They have filled their cases with beautiful specimens, and have dazzled the visi tor with skillful arrangements from shelf to shelf. They have had little concern for the question of the relative ages of these specimens, and usually they have considered all their collections from American localities as the product of the historic Indian. More recently, as the question of Paleolithic man in America has been revived, while discerning the need of geologi cal investigation, they have still been content to sub mit the inquiry to archeologists who made no pretense of geological skill, or to geologists who, with super ficial and insufficient investigation, were satisfied to corroborate the views of their archeological associates.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.