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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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toolssharpened to edges of different shapes and for various purposes, allmade of stone or bone, but all only roughly chipped, unground, andunpolished. It must have taken generations, it may have taken centuries, beforeeven this much of culture was secured by the man, whose wants werefew, whose intellect was as feeble as the intellect of a modern child,but whose mere brute force of muscular strength and whose power ofendurance were probably so great as alone to suffice, for the mostpart, to satisfy all his wants. Certainly, as the relics he has left be-hind him show, a long time elapsed before he much improved his con-dition. Slowly and gradually he ardded to the number of his tools, andimproved upon their shape and capability. Among the most common 6 THE PRE-HISTORIC MAN. (Chap. I. of these improved implements is what the antiquary calls a celt —celtis^ a chisel — and which may have been used either as a chisel, ahatchet, or an adze ; he contrived a scraper, with which he cleaned
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Stone Implements. Fig. 1, flint awl. 2, Swiss stone axe. 3, spear-head. 4, stone celt. 5, stone scraper. 6, bone awl. 7, stone dagger. the adhering flesh from the skins of the beasts he killed ; he inventedbodkins and needles of bone, to pass through them the sinews thatserved for thread when he made clothing of these skins; and he fash-ioned harpoons for fishing. To his offensive weapons he added dag-gers ; his axe he improved in size and shape; and he cut jagged teethin long flakes of flint for saws. Such of these implements as were for use once or twice only in war or in thechase, or for rough and infrequent purposes,he left still rudely chipped. But with the exercise of the inventivepower came the sense of beauty, the con-sciousness of increased effectiveness in theperfection of a tool, and perhaps the de-velopment of a new satisfaction in the per-manent possession of personal property ofhis own creation. Then he was no longerEarliest Pottery. contcut wlth thc rough pcbblc that he

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