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ABO techniques, processes and tools.
iowabow:
The sun rises over the knapping pit with a clear sky. I hope to have a marathon knapping day. Yesterday I gave the hands a break. After 3 weeks now of knapping almost everyday (i managed about 50 during this time) I feel in shape to really knock out some points. The "ABO"point count is approaching ~83 total. I have been focusing on small points for the most part to build up my strength, skill and to reduce my flake collection. A new bit was placed in the ishi about 19 points ago. I should get another 10 from it. This new bit is grayish in color compared to the old one. I once thought the color difference was related to hardness so we will see if this is true not by the point count. The ulna that has made many hundred points is coming to the end of its use. It has been a great tool and is smooth and polished from our working together in making so many points. This bone is hollow toward the end and I expect to hit that section soon during knapping and then will know it's time to set my old companion aside and start with a new one.
AncientTech:
--- Quote from: iowabow on October 18, 2015, 08:34:30 am ---The sun rises over the knapping pit with a clear sky. I hope to have a marathon knapping day. Yesterday I gave the hands a break. After 3 weeks now of knapping almost everyday (i managed about 50 during this time) I feel in shape to really knock out some points. The "ABO"point count is approaching ~83 total. I have been focusing on small points for the most part to build up my strength, skill and to reduce my flake collection. A new bit was placed in the ishi about 19 points ago. I should get another 10 from it. This new bit is grayish in color compared to the old one. I once thought the color difference was related to hardness so we will see if this is true not by the point count. The ulna that has made many hundred points is coming to the end of its use. It has been a great tool and is smooth and polished from our working together in making so many points. This bone is hollow toward the end and I expect to hit that section soon during knapping and then will know it's time to set my old companion aside and start with a new one.
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You should post a photo of your tools, to show the wear patterns.
In archaeology, in order to demonstrate that an item is a culturally predictable trait (as opposed to a once in million fluke), one must show the creation of the tool, the use of the tool, the wear of the tool, the refurbishment of the tool, and the final expenditure of the tool, in archaeological contexts.
Because the original Americans so strongly believed in the afterlife, they typically included items, such as flintknapping toolkits, in the graves of deceased flintknappers. And, these toolkits reflect the tools that the knapper would have used, during his own lifetime. Many flintknapping toolkits were disposed of, with the deceased. These toolkits were also fairly standardized, but varied in different regions of North America. This is how we know what tools were being used. What is not always known is how the tools were used. Use wear patterns are probably an important key in unraveling the use of the tools, especially the small tools that both archaeologists, and flintknappers, have struggled to understand, over the last century.
Also, with regard to wooden tools, there are plenty of dry sites, in the west, that have yielded wood, and plant, artifacts that are many thousands of years old. So, we do have some record of such artifacts, in the west. And, in other places, such artifacts have been recovered from peat bogs. So, it cannot be assumed that all such artifacts disappeared from the archaeological record, as was first believed when early European archaeologists, speculated that wooden billets were used, but then disappeared from the archaeological record.
AncientTech:
Arrowmakers toolkit documented from the Madisonville site:
iowabow:
Here is a picture of the pit. The flint, antler and hammer stone lift out over night still have frost on them. First point completed.
Outbackbob48:
John, good thing you didn't leave your tools out here Nw. Penna :( :o Bob
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