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Re: Unusual arrowhead (better pics added)
[Re: Bigfoot]
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06/07/19 09:23 PM
06/07/19 09:23 PM
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Some of the shaping in many arrowheads is due to the guy making the piece, the quality and size of the raw material, and how much time the maker had to put into the piece. He or she strikes a piece off a core and inevitably one side is flatter than the other, one person takes great care to flake it symmetrical, and the next person doesn't bother. I asked dr adavasio about the similarity in points, my thinking was people or groups of people were mass producing points. Like a village blacksmith did all the village blacksmith work. He said it was a style effect, were multiple groups copied each other's style of point. He is a hundred times smarter than me, but I still think my idea holds water. If you ever tried knapping, it ain't easy or replicable.
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Re: Unusual arrowhead (better pics added)
[Re: Bigfoot]
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06/08/19 08:11 AM
06/08/19 08:11 AM
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I think the reason that old points are made out of better Flint than newer points is is the good Flint was laying on top of the ground when the natives first came here and what was easy to find was used up leaving the Lesser quality Flint that was easier to find for the later inhabitants I know what Kenny went through to find enough Superior Flint it took him more than 10 years to or more to amass 3 50 gallon barrels of bifaces that he intended to use into his retirement with the ability to drive hundreds of miles and a communication Network that allowed him to talk to somebody that was hundreds of miles away that could tell him where deposits of suitable Flint might be he spent a decade getting ready for his easy chair years and then only to lose the eye-hand coordination to actually napp flint
Last edited by Bigfoot; 06/08/19 08:12 AM.
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