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GENERAL INDEX.

heads, 370; referred to, 244, 250, 269, 280, 291, 294, 309

Tibia, its use suggested by its name, 432

Tierra del Fuego, pyrites used in for producing fire. 15

Tiffin, Mr., junr., implements found by, 627, 634

Tiger, sabre-toothed, in Kent's Cavern, 508; in Creswell Crags, 524

"Tilhuggersteene," Danish, 241

Time, incalculable, needed for geological changes, 609, &c.

Tindall, Mr. E., implements found by, 249, 251, 295, 332

Tinder-boxes, no early record of the use of flint for, 17

Tiryns, flint flakes from, 403

Tobacco pipes, N. American, boring of, 52

"Toki" of the Maoris, 172

Toltecs, use of stone mortars by, 257

Tomahawks, Australian, 26; mounting of, i66; time required to make, 52; North American, 216

"Tonderkiler" and "Torden-steen," 57

Tongue-shaped implements defined, 644; found, 539, 572, 649

Topley, Mr. W., on possible ice action in Darent valley, 610; ovate implement found by, 621

Tor Bryan Caves, 516, 517

Torquay Nat. Hist. Soc., exploration of Kent's Cavern by, 490

Torquemada, his account of Aztec obsidian working, 23; on Mexican razors, 290

Touraine, flint industry of, 30

"Traha," a form of tribulum, 284

"Trail and warp," 698

Trees, branches of, with bones under gravel, 595; species of, in Bournemouth submarine forest, 695; below Hitchin brick-earth, 537; in Hoxne brick-earth, 575

Tremlett, Admiral, on the cutting power of jasper flakes, 6

Trephining, practice of, in the Stone Period, 289

Tribrach-formed instrument, 77, 78

Tribulum, Varro's description of the, 284

Trigg (formerly Prigg), the late Mr. Henry, implements found by, 539-542, 550, 554-556, 558, 578; section of Redhill by, 551

Trimmer, Mr., on Trail and Warp, 698

Trou de Chaleux, pyrites in, 286

Trough, triturating, 252

Troy, earthenware whorls from site of, 439; sling-bullets from, 418

Troyon, M., on stone boring, 50; on the use of sand in sawing stone, 44

Truguet, M. Franck de, Swiss boring instrument found by, 46

Trunk interments, 398, 447, 448

Tube, boring by means of, 47, 49, 52; in Klemm collection, 49

Tubularia, hammer-head of fossil mass of, 229

Tumulus, mixing of objects of different date in, 210

Turquoise mines, stone hammers found in, 234

Turquoises on Mexican dagger-hilt, 325

"Turtle-backs" of Trenton, 80, 654

Tuscans, their ceremonial use of a bronze ploughshare, 5

Tusks of wild boar in interments, 83, 148, 328, 427

Tweezers, bone, 433; bronze, l, 440

"Twibill," 146

Twigs, hafting of stone blade by, 347

Tylor, Mr. Alfred, on detritus brought down by rivers, 667; on fluviatile beds, near London, 584; on the "Pluvial Period," 698

Tylor, Dr. E. B., on etymology of "superstition," 8; on obsidian working in Peru, 24, 290; on stone drilling, 48

Tyndall, Prof., on conditions of glacier formation, 698

U

Ulna of whale, axe made of, 435

Ulus, or Eskimo women's knives, 343

Ulysses, his use of the drill, 48

"Underground house of Skaill," objects found in, 255

Upsala, axe in museum of, with Runic inscription, 58

Urns, bronze and stone objects in, 208, 269, &c.; ornamented, found with bracer, 427; jet ornaments with, 456; wooden bodkin in, 433

Use, traces of, on implements, 504, 555, 647

Utensils, domestic, 436-451

V

Valleys, climatal changes shewn by deposits in, 699; erosion of, later than cave deposits, 513, 521; erosion of, later than gravel deposits, 580; erosion of, affected by changes of climate, 666, 676, 697; erosion of, hypothetical, 662-678; retrogression of heads of, 674, 683, 686

Valley slopes, detritus gradually left on, 673

Varro, his description of the tribulum, 284

Vegetable fibre, use of, in hafting arrows, 407, 409; matter, decaying, a source of carbonic acid, 675

Venus, Paphian, on Cypriote coins, 10

Vesica piscis-formed implements, 647

Vessels, stone, in English barrows, 450, 451

Vertebræ, human, with arrow-heads embedded, at the Grotte du Castellet, 375, 401; in la Marne, 396; near Copiapo, 406

Victoria Cave, doubly barbed harpoon from, 505; River, stone working on the banks of the, 26

Viking grave of woman, slick-stone in, 442

Villas, Roman, stone celts found in, 144

Vincent of Beauvais as to derivation of "silex," 15

Vincent, M., his early discovery of flint implement, 527

Virginia, early account of arrow-chipping by Indians of, 40

Virgil, bronze arms mentioned by, 4; bronze sickle of Elissa, 5; on flint and steel, 16; quoted as to jactare, 147

Vivian, Mr. E., his examination of Kent's Cavern, 488, 490

Vogt, Prof. Carl, suggestions as to stone roundels, 49

Vogué, M. de, Syrian palæolithic implement obtained by, 652

Von Estorff on stone boring, 49

Von Sacken, Baron, on the Hallstatt graves, 7

Vulgate, occurrence of Celte in, 55

W

Wallong, the Australian, 243

Walrus, remains of, in Whittlesea Mere, 681

Walrus tooth used for tipping flaking tools, 24

Wapiti, chisels made from horn of, 434

War-axe of Gaveoë Indians, 156; of Nootka Sound Indians, 157

War, blunting of axes for, 196; or chase, probable use of stone balls in, 422; decorations on weapons of, 226

War maces, possible use of circular pebbles as, 231; paint, interment of, with the dead, 264

Waring, Miss, drift implement found by, 608

"Warp and trail," 593, 698

Warren, Mr. Hazzeldine, implements found by, 139, 603