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 | | Notwithstanding the wide spread distribution of this class of stone artifacts and although there have been numerous brief references to them, yet no one has devoted a volume to their study, description and classification, that is, to all of them. |
 | | Stone age man in the United States and Canada possessed no metal, that is, although he used copper, he treated it as a malleable stone, and was therefore different from other primitive nations, who had discovered the use of metal. |
 | | We may imagine that the first aborigine to discover the possibilities of the stone ornament, selected an unusually soft claystone, punched a hole through it with a thorn, and the material being very soft, the rim between the perforation and the upper part gave way and the stone was lost. |
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