Explanation:
no the 13 colonies was a pure Communist dictatorship of King George
Keeping in mind the description of the stone point given in the story, we can state Marshall the rancher was looking at a Folsom point.
As it's known, a Folsom is a kind of stone point with a leaf-like shape which has a concave base and wide, shallow grooves/flutes running almost the entire length of the point.
The putting out system was a precursor to the factories of the industrial revolution. It was an intermediate step that came between the system in which everything was made at home and the system in which everything was made in factories.
Mercantilism introduced a new way to make profit and gain international influence by promoting the foreign trade of select resources.