Primitive Industry, or, Illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone, Bone, and Clay of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America

Abstract

THIS work is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of American archaeology. Dr. Abbott describes successively the principal types of stone, bone, and bronze antiquities, especially those of New Jersey. The work is illustrated by more than 400 woodcuts, and is divided into 33 chapters devoted to “Stone Axes; Celts; Chisels and Gouges; Grooved Hammers; Semilunar Knives; Chipped Flint Knives; Drills; Awls or Perforators; Scrapers; Slick Stones and Sinew Dressers; Mortars and Pestles; Pottery; Sheatite Food-Vessels; Pitted Stones; Chipped Flint Implements; Bone Implements; Agricultural Implements; Plummets; Net-sinkers; Spear-points and Arrow-heads; Flint Daggers; Grooved Stone Club-heads; Pipes; Discoidal Stones; Inscribed Stones; Ceremonial Objects; Bird-shaped Stones; Gorgets; Totems; Pendants and Trinkets; Copper Implements; Hand-hammers and Rubbing-stones; Shell Heaps; Flint Chips; Palseolithic Implements; the Antiquity and Origin of the Trenton Gravels.”

Primitive Industry, or, Illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone, Bone, and Clay of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America.

By Charles C. Abbott (Salem, Mass.: George A. Bates, 1881.)