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Messed Up An Artifact.
mullet:
Maybe they got the candy and threw away the crap.
caveman2533:
I personally would give a big wooden billet a swing on a rock that large. It will drive flakes as flat as a pancake
Ahnlaashock:
If I can find some from local construction sites that is not so fractured, I may try that!
I was using a 1 by 3 rough cut Red Oak edge on for percussion last fall, but it did not have the weight of a round billet of any size. All I really did was round the hold end a little, and grind a curve on the striker face portion.
I thought I had found some of very good quality, but it appears to just be a skin over a limestone of some kind.
I will try to reassemble the face in the next few days.
Sparrow:
The Clovis guys were absolute masters of the craft. There is quite alot of it out here in Washington ( Must have been good hunting ) Floods have moved most of the stuff around, but it is still a thrill to find. I would say that it is a Clovis core from what you show there, they used the best stuff from the best sources out here. Nature was destroying that piece for a long time before you stumbled on it. It is the way. ' Frank
Ahnlaashock:
Here it is, with two of the large pieces fitted back. The other end had a cortex layer, so those are the remains of the platforms. There are several flakes taken from the side too. You can see what I was doing when I realized what I had in my hand.
Wish I had seen this face before I hit it. The pieces are not sitting right, so they make the scars look like they have a hump.
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