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stones, 440; on balls, 420; on beads, 457, 458; on cups, 444, 448; on cylinders of chalk, 421; on hammer, 226; on jet ring, 454; on lamp, 445; on querns, 259, 260; on spindle-whorls, 438; on stone vessel, 451

Ostrich, egg-shell, discs of, worn by Bushmen, 277; bone used by Bushmen for arrow-shafting, 410

Otter-skin, Califomian knives hafted with, 293

Out-door and in-door use, varying implements for, 641

Ouvry, late Mr. F., Egyptian implement found by, 652

Overlapping of the three Ages, 11, 227

Ovid, his mention of the sickle of Medea, 5; his mention of the stone used by Atys, 9; on the wearing action of water, 477

Oviedo on sawing with sand and string, 44

Ox, African, sacrifice of, with stone implement, 10

Ox horn, possible use of, in tube-boring, 50; dagger-hilt of, 265

Paint, red, early use of, 149, 263, 264; from hæmatite, 312; stone mullers used for grinding, 248

Palæolithic deposits, their relation to Boulder clay, 577, 685, 697

floors, buried under "trail," 698; discovery of, 586, 591; flint workshop on, 606; heaps of flint lying on, 598; implements from, 587; preservation of delicate flakes in, 643; replacement on original cores of, flakes from, 598; under brick-earth, 598; under Wey valley gravels, 595

implements, compared with neolithic, 12, 648, 657

man, evidence for unity of races of, 654

Palæolithic Period, characteristics of implements of, 53; grindstones apparently unknown in, 85; conditions of human life in, 657

Palestine, ceremonial use of stone knives in, 9

Palstaves, bronze, hafting of, 163

Patagonians, arrow-heads of, 406; varieties of Bolas among, 422

Patination of flints, 187, 660

Patroclus, prize at funeral games of, 5

Paulus Jovius on bone bracers in England, 430

Pausanias on the use of metals in the heroic times, 4, 7

Peale, Mr. T. R., on the use of bone in arrow-chipping, 39

Peat, injurious effect of, on wood, 152; moss, hafted hatchet found in, 151; moss, sling-stones in, 419; moss, stone knives arranged in, 593; Oxford, recent flora in, 593; palæolithic implements at base of, 539

Pebbles, as amulets, 466, 469; cheese-shaped, 244; with depressions worked, 241, 244, 270; flint, disintegration of, 497; grooved, 271; in interments, 467, &c.; naturally perforated, 469, 470; painted, in the cave of Mas d'Azil, 484; perforated, for hammers, 217; perforated, for net-sinkers, 439; polished, in tumuli, 214, 443, 467; as pounders, 244; of quartz, battered by use, 25; of quartzite, hammers of, 228; sacred, 468; for slinging, 419

Pemberton, American inscribed axe from, 58

Pendants of amber, 460; of bone, 463; of bronze at Hallstatt, 464; of jasper and callais, 465; of jet, 461, &c., 466; of serpentine, 470

Pengelly, Mr., exploration of Brixham cave by, 512; of Kent's Cavern, 488, 491

Pennacooks, mode of using pestle among the, 257; their scrapers, 299

Pennant, Mr., on querns in the Hebrides, 258

Penning, Mr. W. H., on African palolithic implements, 653; palæolithic implements found by, 602, 603

Pennington, Mr. Rooke, barrow opened by, 467

Perceval, Mr. Spencer G., drift implement found by, 624

Perforations in celts, 142; incomplete, of axe-heads, 205, 226; natural, in flints, 184, 225; in pebbles, 217, 470; in stone, how effected, 46, 47; in stone, possible use of in cord-making, 428; in whetstones, 268; in wooden handle of flake, 292

Perrault, M., researches in the Camp de Chassey, 159

Persian arrows, iron, 394, 396

Persians, myth as to their skill in archery, 361

Personal ornaments, amulets, &c., 452-472

Perthes, M., Boucher de, discoveries in Somme valley, 12, 490; on celt handle, 160; on uses of pointed implements, 655; on worked flints at Abbeville, 526

Peru, obsidian working in, 24

Pestle and mortar, 252, 254

Pestle-like implements, 135, 149

Petrie, Prof. Flinders, on Egyptian blades, ripple-marked, 359; on fibre-hafted knife, 293; flint hatchets, hafting of, 169, 170; lance-head, 354; palæolithic implements found by, 652, 653; on sickles, 297; on tube- boring, 51

Pfahl-bauten, Swiss, flint workshop in the, 22; sawing on celts of, 43

Philip II. of Macedon, imitations of coin of, found with arrow-head, 397

Phillips, Mr. B., on softening amber, 449

Pickel, Conrad, his name Latinized into Celtes, 56

Picks of red deer horn used for flint extraction, 33

Picks and chisels, 173-182

"Picts* Castle," 138

"Picts' houses," see Brochs

"Picts' knives," flakes resembling, 281, 292; not of flint, 345; recent use of, 348; possible use of in whaling, 348

Pierre de tonnerre, 57

Pig, Roman sacrifice of, with flint weapon, 10

"Pikelet stones" now made of iron, 440

Pins or awls, 433; bone, in interments, 83; from Kent's Cavern, 488, 506; bronze, 214; possible use of, in interments, 432

Pipes of erosion, 548, 602, 707

Pisander, bronze axe of, 4

"Pisky grinding-stones," 437

Pitcairn on the diabolical origin of elf-arrows, 366

Pitch, Scandinavian use of, for mounting bronze implements, 170

Pithecanthropus erectus, Dr. Dubois', alluded to, 703

Pits for the extraction of flints, 33, 35, 78

Pivot stones, 242

Planes, Eskimo, use of scrapers as, 299

"Plateau type," doubtful character of flints of, 609, 643, 658

Plate of gold in barrow, 227

Plates of amber for necklaces, 460; of jet, 457, &c.

Pleistocene fauna, association of worked flints with, 606, 700, 701, &c.; implements, European, similarity of those of Somaliland with, 653

Pliny as to Cerauniæ, 64, 481; on the Glossopetra, 363 ; on the ovum anguinum, 437; on pyrites, 16

Plot, Dr., on the true character of stone axes, 63; on flint arrow-heads, 362

Ploughshare, bronze, ceremonial use of, by the Tuscans, 5

Plowright, Dr. C. B., on a Norfolk flint factory, 83

Plutarch on the bronze weapons of Theseus, 4

"Pluvial Period," Mr. Tylor on the, 698

Poem, early German, referred to, 146