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To: SunkenCiv

Might have got somone’s wife pregnant while the husband was out on a long hunt...

The point in the photo has definitely been resharpened [new flakes driven off the edge], but that’s not unusual on a hafted tool. Making a blade dos not take near as much time as hafting it so there is a lot of incentive to “use up” a hafted tool until there’s not enough left to sharpen; in the course of such usage the function of the tool may change; an old blade may be better suited to prying open mussels or skinning than a new one, or even burnishing. The ideal tool for cutting, say hides, isn’t a well worked blade but simply a flake knocked off of a chert or obsidian core, esp. one with a hook to it.


35 posted on 04/08/2019 1:25:03 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa
He appears to have been a hunter-gatherer, maybe there was a violent split at that time between hunters and gatherers, due to some polarizing political figure. /s

37 posted on 04/08/2019 1:29:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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