On the two opposite sides of the pebble, and intersecting this groove, two flat or slightly hollowed faces have often been worked, the purpose of which is doubtless connected with the method of hafting the stones for use as hammers.
Such a system of hafting would, moreover, imply a fixity of residence on the part of the savage owners of the tools, which appears hardly compatible with the stage of civilization to which such instruments are probably to be referred.
Unfortunately there are no indications by which to judge of the method of haftingsuch instruments.
Haftings Five different types of haftingwere found among the BahÃa de Los Angeles artifacts.
The manner of hafting the socketed celts is well shown by a handled socketed celt found at Edenderry, King's Co.
The manner of hafting them is quite clear, as a few hafted examples have been found.
There is only one staghorn hafting for a celt, and it is bored in the middle for a handle, but the number of perforated hammers of this material is considerable.
Among other things were buttons and haftings of staghorn; a conical stone set in a long hafting of staghorn; some netting-needles of wood, etc.
The hafting grooves, two in number, are comparatively deep and closely spaced.
Whether the particular ax has one cutting edge or is double-bitted; whether it is provided with one or with two parallel transverse hafting grooves, the general identity of form remains.
A flattened space of approximately 2 centimeters is left un-grooved for the hafting of a flat surfaced handle end with binding, which is passed around the transverse groove and then through a hole in the wooden handle.
The reverse or hafting surface is flat; the obverse is convexly tapered to sharp cutting edges which are at right angles to the haft.
That this final type of hafting was reached before stone had gone out of use for such implements is shown by Fig.
This method of hafting differs in no essential respect from that used on the mauls and adzes above described.
Nuw[)u]k, and made for the market, is introduced to show a method of hafting which may have been formerly employed.
The transverse grooves for hafting give a good hold for the fingers.
The position of the groove suggests the method of hafting shown in Fig.
Mention of these objects is also made by Knight in a recent pamphlet, the method of hafting being illustrated.
The method of hafting these implements, when used for axes and adzes, was doubtless the same as that employed for stone implements of similar shapes.
Side edges of thehafting area may be parallel or slightly contracted.
The auriculated hafting area is usually expanded-rounded with an incurvate basal edge.
Broad, deep flakes, struck from the basal corners or sometimes the sides of the hafting area, shape the stem.
The hafting area was thinned by broad, shallow flaking followed by the removal of small, shallow flakes along the basal edge.
The hafting area consists of an area with incurvate side edges that may be ground and may be auriculate with expanded pointed or rounded auricles.
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