DANG I have a gold mine around my shrubs !!!!

If those are all native tools then I'm a millionaire . Got a dump trucks full of those "tools" around my house and lain into the wall on my garage. And to think all these years we called them river stone. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those little round ones in that bowl looking thing we call pea gravel and buy them by the ton. Those big ones could be used for a hammer . Oh yea anyone want to buy the tool David used to kill Goliath !!!! Got some ancient artifacts I will sell for near nothing. !!!!!

I'm not saying that it could not be used for fleshing. It just seems a very inefficient way to go about it. The northern tribes use a narrow log upright and use a split moose leg bone to flesh and grain. Buffalo are a different story, when done with the hair on. They have to be worked and thinned from the flesh side, so they use the jagged end of the bone on a staked out hide. A good stone could possibly have been then used for thinning the hide. My experience is that it makes a scored surface, compared to smoother with a steel blade.

Let my 7 and 4 year old granddaughters out in the yard this afternoon and they brought me in some native tools. If you close one eye and squint the other you can see that the sharp one could have been used to castrate sasquatch. The other ones I think they put in their stew pots to keep them from boiling over. I will let them go for 100 bucks each to the first 15 messengers ( got several more from the same place)

Get them while they last !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I doubt they were scraping hides 24 hrs a day 365 days a year. Probably a lot of what they were doing with tools would not be our first guess, which inevitably is scraping hides. They were making basketry, weaving fabrics of one base or another, eating things other than 100 percent meat, erecting and maintaining housing. Lots and lots of everyday jobs that had nothing to do with what our first assumption always seems to be.

I find river rock here, somebody carried it here long ways here. Same with good flint/chert, good stuff is mainly flint ridge or coshocton Ohio both a hundred miles west.

There would have to have been large populations here very early, the chert distribution I don't think could happen other wise. To think that a couple guys could travel a hundred miles west of here, thru the wilderness to a ridge that bears flint, by memory and on foot, just seems implausible or highly unlikely. Sure it could occur and probably did, but they couldn't have walked a hundred miles west everytime they ran low on material. Maybe they brought a hundred pounds of chert back with them every time, but it sure seems impractical as a long term strategy.

Just think of all the tools they would have had if they found a rock crusher.

They were experts in woodsmanship and survival, they knew everything they needed to know. They must have had an intensive knowledge of medicinal plants and medicine in general. They didn't survive over ten thousand plus years without a vast knowledge of their surroundings and environmental conditions. These were modern humans, basically exactly like us, especially in mental capacities. As smart as us, probably considerably stronger than us, and definetly more in tune with the environment than us.

North American native peoples had plant based treatments for all kinds of ailments,afflictions and injurys.
I have a fairly good list of the different kinds of plants used by different tribes for each ailment/application.

A huge part of their diet was plant base they spent a lot of time digging roots and cutting greens