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Interesting fluting technique

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Taxus brevifolia:
This is quite interesting, if you haven't seen it yet. I'm familiar with the chest crutch technique for blade cores, but this is a new one on me.
"Fluting the Cumberland"
https://youtu.be/sZCY5GL4xbc

GlisGlis:
if you google for "flintknapping fluting jig" you'll find quite alot of types
My only concern is that is pretty unlikely any of these could be historically used by ancestors

Ryan Jacob:
Speaking of which, what did they use? I only see jig work or spalling flakes go as long as some of the fultes on the artifacts

Taxus brevifolia:
The only thing I've seen offered up by way of explanation with paleo tools are a chest crutch and various levers used with prismatic blade cores.

Prismatic Blade Core series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNsY4bgHOkxUEIBfssd9hRKNBERAsaTGd


https://www.jstor.org/stable/278596?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Chippintuff:
That is just a Solberger Jig (do a search on it). They can do excellent work, but with any long fluting the real challenge is getting the preform shaped exactly right. I do not Make cumberlands, but the flutes and other end thinning flakes that I take are done with indirect.

WA

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