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The Variation in Outline of American “Flint” Arrow-heads

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I FIND, after a careful perusal of the sixteenth chapter of Mr. Evans's magnificent work on British Stone Implements—on javelin and arrow-heads—that he has considered the American forms far more uniform, less varied in outline than they really are. I am familiar with many collections made at distant parts of the Union, and have an immense assortment of my own collecting now in the Museum of the Peabody Academy, at Salem, Mass. In these several collections is every form that Mr. Evans has figured, and several that he has not mentioned.

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ABBOTT, C. The Variation in Outline of American “Flint” Arrow-heads. Nature 6, 392–393 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006392b0

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