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Ghost Knapper:
You contest that a single process cam create all of those scar patterns, overshoots, etc. But for all I know you are using whatever technique/tool you wish so that you can end up with a staged photo to support your argument.
While in a photo it many be hard to show a knapping process no attempt has been shown to connect the photos posted so far to the process you contest is the method used by native knappers.
I have seen central rippling in a biface that was so thin you could read through it (ok well maybe not) but still super thin and it was all done with a short solid copper billet. Just as there are many styles of points/blades/knives etc. there were probably many techniques/process's used to create stone tools throughout all of history.
P.S. Auto correct kept changing "knapping" to "snapping", don't think I am going to try either today. :)
JW_Halverson:
Ghost Snapper, I hate auto-correct, too.
caveman2533:
--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on June 17, 2015, 06:50:27 pm ---Ghost Snapper, I hate auto-correct, too.
--- End quote ---
:) LOL
JacksonCash:
Okay, I've been trying to follow all of this, with very little knowledge of knapping at all. My wife has done a fair share of knapping, and thought the discussion may interest her, but I've been unable to relay to her what is actually going on. So, let us take a moment and try to clear a few things up.
* AncientTech has proposed that he(and others?) has discovered a method to produce certain desired results for a given flake
* The above method relys on only one tool (Unnotched antler tine?)
* This idea has some interest, though people want to see the process, not just the results
There has been a discussion of many tools, and many flake types. I guess I'm just trying to understand what the argument is - is it that prehistoric peoples used only antler tines and everything else has been invented? Is it that Tech can create any given flake type at will with any given tool?
Or is the answer, as was once said, blowin' in the wind?
mullet:
I'd go with Blowing somewhere? The Dude has a serious problem with getting to the point.
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