Excerpt from Stone Age in New JerseyThe abundance of the weapons and domestic implements of the aborigines suggests that each village had at least one implement-maker, that the various stone articles were the product of the skill of some one of every community, who was exclusively devoted to the business of making them. Although, when on hunting-expeditions or in battle, the single specimens lost would have the effect to mingle all the styles throughout the State, yet if we compare a smite of arrow-heads, spears, lances, or even axes, from a single locality, with a similar series from a distant section of the State, there will be found with each a peculiarity of its own, an individuality, so to speak, that characterizes the two col lections. The similarity of stone implements the world over is one that extends to those forms that are simplest, and is not an indication that because the same results have been wrought out by widely-separated tribes there was necessarily a kinship.Studying the localities in the State where relics are most numerous, we have been surprised with the frequent exhibition of the implement maker's peculiar tastes, and are convinced that widely-differing shapes of wrought stones in some cases have had an identical purpose, and certainly it would be difficult to suggest names for each type, they being more numerous than the occupations of a primitive people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.