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[[underline]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underline]] 39^[[2.]]

workers in wood.

[[underline]] Grooved Pebbles. [[/underline]]
  Other stones---merely unshaped pebbles, these---bore shallow grooves (pl. 59, fig. 1, lower right).  Such objects we called "net-sinkers", and in some instances fishbones occurred near them; though there exists in the region today no body of water (aside from the Fên Ho, some miles distant) of sufficient size to permit the netting of fish on any large scale.  It is possible, however, that in reality such grooved stones may have been hammers or mallets; for though their ends bore no obvious traces of battering, their form and weight would have been well suited to such use.[[superscript]] (345-b) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (345-b) [[/superscript]]    Precisely similar stones, likewise provided with grooves in which are fitted withies as handles, are used today by the peasantry of certain remote parts of China for various purposes, such as breaking up clods in the fields or splitting kindling (in the latter case with the aid of wooden wedges).
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[[underline]] Arrowpoints. [[/underline]]
  Arrowpoints (already named in this connection^[[)]][[strikethrough]] see page 389) [[/strikethrough]] also occurred, though rather sparingly (pl. 64).  Apparently they were all intended for use in hunting rather than in war; since few if any of them had anything that looked like barbs.  they were of various shapes, sizes, and materials, though these distinctions appeared to have no chronological or classificatory import; for differe^[[n]]t types were regularly found together, at similar depths and even in the same deposits.  In the absence of flint (rarely found in China), considerable use in their manufacture was made of chert and slate.  Arrowpoints of bone were usually trihe^[[d]]ral in form. [[superscript]] (346) [[/superscript]] The
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[[superscript]] (346) [[/superscript]]    Trihedral arrowpoints in various materials have already been discussed in these pages; see pp. 178 [[underline]] sq. [[/underline]]and note 171, and pp. 277 and note 250.
      Should Dr. J. G. Andersson's very plausible surmise (cited in the former of these two notes^[[)]] prove correct, that this type of point, found from end to end of the "steppe corridor" of Eurasia from quite remote times, was based on an original copper form, its presence in [[here has?]]

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