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Video: Obsidian HATCHET manufacture using Hammerstone
AncientTech:
https://youtu.be/MKMnkWeiy-Y
This guy might actually be faster with a hammerstone than Marty Rueter.
By the way, some evidence suggests that flintknappers used to kneel, and lay the biface on top of their knee, on a pad. Today, since we use chairs, we are more accustomed to sitting upright, in an elevated position. There might be more possibilities, with the knee pad method...
caveman2533:
He is not thinning it much.
Hummingbird Point:
I would have to agree with caveman. It looks like he is stuck in what Callahan termed learning Phase B, which he summed up as "the biface would become narrow at about the same rate as it would become thin" while most knappers are trying to get rapidly to Learning Phase C, where "the biface would become thin at a more rapid rate than it would become narrow."
But, not judging the man based on one short video clip, and he beats me in that doing work on obsidian with no protection, I would have been on my way to the hospital at the 33 second mark. :-\
Keith
nclonghunter:
Lol...now I know I am in phase B.....sort of like having a sickness and not knowing what it is called.
AncientTech:
--- Quote from: caveman2533 on November 10, 2015, 02:32:04 pm ---He is not thinning it much.
--- End quote ---
He is making a hatchet.
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