Prehistoric objects from a shell-heap at Erin bay, Trinidad (1914)
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 · Lancaster, Pa., New era Print. Co. · leaf 40
s on their surfaces and rattle when shaken. Stone Implements Stone implements from the Erin Bay midden consist of celts, axes, chisels, pecking-stones, mortars, pestles, and other forms. A number of almond-shaped celts, like Porto Rican petaloids, were collected in Trinidad. The most interesting… … Fig. 72. — Notched axe. Fig. 73. — Jadeite pendant. Santo Domingo-Porto Rico area pestles commonly have handles decorated with animal heads or even with entire animals, but in the Aborigines of Porto Rico, pi. Ixxxvi, a.
Kitchen-middens
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