On the Age of American Stone Implements, or “Indian Relics”

Abstract

THE interest connected with the various forms of ordinary stone implements, of which arrow-heads are by far the most abundant form, is greatly lessened by the fact that nothing connected with their discovery bears upon the question of the date of their origin. We know about the date of the introduction of iron, by European visitors to our country, and therefore about the time of the abandonment of stone implements and weapons by the Red men; but concerning the time of the commencement of the use of stone here in the States we are almost wholly in the dark.