Excerpt from 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio and Representative Citizens F. W. Putnam remarked upon the distinct nose with which the patina or Velvety ox idation had been preserved, indicative of the conditions in which it was said to have been found, and in itself bearing evidence of great antiquity. F. H. Cashing, the t'muous Zuni ethnologist, declared that there could he no question that it was a finished implement and not a reject and that not only had it been finished by careful chipping all along the. Edge, but it had been finished twice, having been at least once reshaped upon its cutting edge and, what is of special significance, that it had been sharpened not by the more modern processes in which the chips were broken from the edge by pressing against it with a piece of bone, but by the older process of striking against the edge with another stone. The type of the implement also was pronounced by M r. Cashing to be the earliest known, althou h from the con venience of the form it as always con tinued in use. It was one, however, which appeared at the very dawn ot' human development. 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.