[marktwain]

Yes. My family had a polished stone axe head that was found plowing up bottom land in Wisconsin. I often envisioned how difficult it would be to attempt to cut down a tree with that tool, and how many hundreds of hours it must have taken to shape it.

It was not chipped. It was ground and polished. One end had a little flat ground on it for pounding with. The other was “sharpened” if you can call it that, to and edge that would damage a tree when it was struck... There were indentations for lashings.

[cva66snipe]

My deceased cousin {who got me started reading FR} had taught himself how to make arrowheads. As a prank my dad and I hauled about a 400 pound quartz rock to his house and off loaded it on his front porch. In a few weeks we noticed he'd been busting it up. He made some real nice points before he passed.

Where he was making them was very close to a creek and chippings are all over the yard. In a few years with the chippings laying in the ground how would the Gooburmunt know the difference? I know the difference between a recent handcraft and an original looking at them for tell tale giveaways but I bet you not once agent in that raid would know LOL.