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, hand-mill at, 258

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,