"Spall" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spalls, and flakes shows that many implements were made and repaired here. But, while a few specimens showed that their fabricators were masters of the chipping art, most of them were roughly finished. Some which are so little altered from the original form of the rough flake or spall that they would be classed as "rejects" if found about a flint workshop have a smoothness or "hand polish" which denotes much service. There is the possibility, of course, that hunting or traveling parties ...
— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke |
