Excerpt from The Stone Age in North America, Vol. 1 of 2: An Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Implements, Ornaments, Weapons, Utensils, of the Prehistoric Historic Tribes of North America, With More Than Three Hundred Full-Page Plates and Four Hundred Figures Illustrating Over Four Thousand Different Objects The work has necessitated an extensive correspondence with museums, scientific men, and private collectors throughout the United States, much travel, and the reading Of thousands Of pages Of reports, books, and articles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.