Recent Excavations on Prehistoric and Dynastic Sites in Egypt

Sir Henry Howorth askedl how the stone sockets and dowels, which he compared with those of a Swedish circle, could have been made with stone tools.Mr. Gowland, in reply, pointed out (1) that in Japan such sockets were made commonly by pounding and bruising; (2) that the abseuce of bronze implements made it improbable in any case that bronze tools had been employed; (3) that the reason for the absence of the smaller chips of " sarsen " was that pounding, produced not chips but powder and granular pieces, except where large fragments were broken away at once. REVIEWS. Egypt.Petrie

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