Early Palaeo-Eskimo Artifacts from Cow Head, Newfoundland.
Found in the lower levels of the site shown in the previous illustration (slide 18), these Palaeo-Eskimo artifacts from Newfoundland are of the same high quality cherts and exhibit the same careful flaking that characterized the tools of the first Palaeo-Eskimos who lived 1,000 years earlier and 1,000 kilometres to the north. The fine flaking of the Arctic Small Tool tradition gives them an almost jewel-like appearance.
At the upper left are two side-notched harpoon end-blades. Below them is a harpoon sideblade which was set in the side of a bone or antler harpoon to cause the prey to bleed. At the upper right is a small end-scraper used to prepare hides or perhaps to smooth wood, bone or antler. In the bottom row are two stone knives, the example on the right having been restored from two fragments.
