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Stoker:
Very cool.. Some real nice looking points
Thanks Leroy

Mounter:
Wow, nice collection..

Could be that just like in modern society,  some indians were perfectionist, while others had more of a "that's good enough" attitude?

nclonghunter:
Agreed that thick points that are not sharp may be less effective but I would also question if real thin and weak points are also less effective due to easily being broken. There is likely a good place in the middle that allows sharp edges and strength. Points with smooth tapers of medium thickness is my preference.

Hummingbird Point:
I don't see anything in the pictures that I would describe as "fat/crude", but then again I live where 99% of the points were made of quartz or quartzite.

I would offer, only as a "devil's advocate" type of thing, that your perspective has been skewed by modern knappings' obsession with thinness.  If the vast majority of those points are "fat/crude" and only a few are thin and well made, I would offer that "fat/crude" was the norm the ancient knappers were striving for and the few ultra thin ones are anomolous.   The guys making those points did this for a living, they had to live off what they could produce from those tools.  If they are mostly "fat/crude", wouldn't you have to conclude there is a good reason for that?

Keith

JoJoDapyro:
How about this, We have to go to work, and pay for the place we are going to knap, and the stone, and the tools. We no longer have the "Luxury" of learning how to do things to survive, and be able to completely hone that craft. I could make an arrowhead that would take game just fine, or, I could "Waste" my material and have no arrow heads, and then where does it leave me? I fell I am better than I was, but if I would have never decided that it was good enough, and broken or destroyed every point I ever attempted, I would have given up a long time ago. I already ruin close to 99%

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