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First stone point and size question

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le0n:
^^ yep.

i'd guess black novaculite.

keep up the good work.

GlisGlis:
nice for sure and hunting usable too


--- Quote --- It's so small because I had a hard time driving a long flake from the rock with the hammer stone
--- End quote ---

did you made it abo? or did you use copper?

Dustinhill:
Thanks for the responses everyone! And I used a hammer stone and antlers. I used both percussion and pressure flaking. To clarify, Where I had the most difficulty was in creating a piece large enough to work from my initial stone. I used the hammer stone for this. The rock was very irregular and faceted, I think this might have been why I had trouble.

mullet:
That's a nice point to be made with a hammerstone. And, it's big enough to kill a deer. Most "bird" points were actually arrowheads and shot with a bow.

le0n:
if its not already gravelized, show us a picture of the rock this came off of.

the only thing i can suggest to getting larger flakes (not knowing what you're doing now) is to hit higher on the platforms. if there are no platforms, perhaps you can perform a bipolar split to have a new set of platforms on the two halves.

last suggestion; just knap one big blade/axe head from the entire rock.

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