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GENERAL INDEX.
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Abbott, Mr. J. W. Lewis, on minute flint tools, 325
Aberdeenshire, flint workshops in, 22
Abnormal peculiarities in celts, 130
Abrasion of flints by fire-producing, 315, 318, 416, &c.; by hammering, 217, 413, &c.
Abydos, Egyptian arrow-heads from, 393, 395
Achilles, spear of, 4
Adams, Dr. Leith, Guernsey arrow-head factory traced by, 401
Adder-stones, 437
Adhémar, M., as to date of Glacial Period, 705
Admixture of objects of different periods, 210, 475, 479' 487, 492
Adzes, in Burma and Assam, 59; of Clalam Indians, 165; of New Guinea, 162; Polynesian, of basalt, 69; bronze, 4; with carved handle, 166, 167; celts adapted for use as, 94, 122, 124, 135; of chalcedonic flint, 138; hafting of, 164, 165; for hollowing canoes, 165, 166; of horn, carved, 435; of mussel-shell, 182; perforated, 188-192; uses of, 215
Æfric's Glossary on Stan-æx, 145
Æneid, mention of bronze arms in, 4
Africa, sacrificial use of stone in, 10; flint flakes in diamond diggings of, 277
Agate, arrow-heads of, 406; chisel of, 40; gun-flints of, 21
Agatharchides on Egyptian chisels, 6
Ages, Stone, Bronze, and Iron, succession of, 2
Agricola, Georgius, on Brontia and Ceraunia, 64
Agriculture, possible use of stone implements in, 71, 205, 645
Ahts of North America, fern-roots eaten by, 250; mussel-shell adzes used by, 182
Aithadh, or elf-shot, 365
Akerman, Mr., on Lapp burials of needed objects, 283
Alaska, stone hammer from, 25
Albania, gun-flint making in, 21
Albite, chloritic, celts of, 109
Aldrovandus, his culter lapideus, 289; on the Glossopetra, 363; on Roman stone weapons, 362; his securis lapidea, 157; on stone implements, 63, 64
Aleppo, threshing instrument from, 284
Aleutian Islanders, thong-drill used by, 48
Alexius Comnenus, celt presented by, to German Emperor, 59
Alger, Mr., on level of Waveney Valley, 683
Algeria, flakes from, 287
Algonquins, form of club used by, 424
Allée couverte of Argenteuil, perforated pebbles from, 465; stag's horn socket from, 160; worked blade from, 327
Alluvium, beds of, between stalagmitic layers in caverns, 479
Almond-shaped implements, 647
Alteration in structure of flint, 487, 497, 513, 556, 596, 659, 660
Alum, its wood-preserving power, 152
"Amazon axe," 184
Amber, beads of, in interment, 429; cup of, at Hove, 449; with perforated axe, 185; with whetstone, 268; importation of, to Britain, 449; piece of, in interment, 149; plates of, for necklaces, 460; studs or buttons of, 456
America, doubtful evidence of palæolithic remains in, 654
Ammonites in barrow, 467; their use as "cramp-stones," 470
Amulets, arrow-heads mounted as, 365, 367; celt probably used as, 145; of iron-ore in interment, 313; Portuguese decorated, 470; of schist, 463; stones in interment as, 466, 468, 469
Anchorites, Dr. Grew's description of, 364
"Ancient Meols," Hume's, referred to, 439
Anderson, Dr. J., experiments with flint implements, 320, 408; on polished stone discs, 440
Andrée, Richard, on beliefs concerning stone weapons, 60
Angelucci, Capt., stone arrow-head factory discovered by, 402
Anglesea, querns in, 259
Anglo-Saxon burial ground, flint and steel in, 283
Animals, carvings of, on weapons, 215, 435; engravings of, on Egyptian gold haft, 359; extinct, their co-existence with man, 513, 524. &c.
Antiquity of celts, 143, 150; of man in Britain, 704; of river-drift implements, 700
Antlers of deer, celt-sockets made from, 160; circle of, in barrow, 466; used as picks at Cissbury, 79; flat instrument of, 432; at Grime's Graves, 33
Anvils, stone, early use of, 245; recent use of, 11, 232
Apaches of Mexico, arrow-head making among, 24; hammer-hafting, 239
Arabs, arrow-head charms among, 367
Archer, Mr. F., neolithic flakes fitted on to core by, 20
Arctic fauna, of Crayford beds, 607; northward retreat of, 486; of Salisbury beds, 689; plants, fossil, at Hoxne, 577
Ariantes, his method of numbering the people, 368
Armlet on arm of skeleton, 429; bronze, in cromlech, 464; "coal-money" the central disc of, 465; of jet, lathe-turned, 464
Arrow-flakers, 37, 416
Arrow-flaking, art of, in America, 42; experiments on, by author, 41; use of fossil ivory for, 37
Arrows and arrow-heads, African and Asiatic, 405; American, 406, 407; Arab, 367; of the Bushmen, 370; Californian, 39, 40; Danish, 35, 306; Egyptian, 368, 369, 395 Eskimo,