PreClovis Artifacts from Central Texas
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Charlie Hatchett wrote:And, it was all your idea. I never thought beyond them being butchering tools. Many would make excellent woodworking tools. Maybe, someday, with some microwear analyses, we'll know for sure for what they were used.Minimalist wrote:Indeed we did and more importantly showed that such tools were reasonable utensils for those tasks.We had fun breaking rocks and chopping trees.
No great insight on my part....just mindlessly wondering what these people might use sharpened rocks for. Food prep would be important....but so would shelter and firewood..and defense.
I was pretty so surprised that it worked so well.
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BTW, I'm still not convinced that they would not have hafted this piece. Look where your thumb is on the narrow edge. It is perpendicular to the cutting edge at the bottom. How hard would it have been to use some animal sinew to tie a forked stick to it as a handle which would greatly improve the striking power? And, 10,000 years later what are the odds that we would find either the sinew or the wood associated with it?
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BTW, I'm still not convinced that they would not have hafted this piece. Look where your thumb is on the narrow edge. It is perpendicular to the cutting edge at the bottom. How hard would it have been to use some animal sinew to tie a forked stick to it as a handle which would greatly improve the striking power? And, 10,000 years later what are the odds that we would find either the sinew or the wood associated with it?
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That's Charlie's hand....we switched off. My arm was getting tired.
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Er... it'd be interesting to know how it handled if you gave that idea a shot. Fixing it to a forked stick I mean.Minimalist wrote:BTW, I'm still not convinced that they would not have hafted this piece. Look where your thumb is on the narrow edge. It is perpendicular to the cutting edge at the bottom. How hard would it have been to use some animal sinew to tie a forked stick to it as a handle which would greatly improve the striking power? And, 10,000 years later what are the odds that we would find either the sinew or the wood associated with it?
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