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'Incredibly exciting' rare pre-Ice Age handaxe discovered on Orkney
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| Tuesday, June 7, 2011
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Posted on 06/11/2011 9:44:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Discovered: The tool could potentially 'set back our known history'.
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posted on
06/11/2011 9:44:03 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Those are on sale at Home Depot this week.
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posted on
06/11/2011 9:48:47 PM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Sorry, we're all out of free Lazamatazes! Come back next year!)
To: Renfield; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
06/11/2011 9:51:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
06/11/2011 9:53:32 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: Larry Lucido
Those are on sale at Home Depot this week.I no longer shop at Homo Depot.
To: SunkenCiv
Kind of looks like a rock to me...
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posted on
06/11/2011 10:04:56 PM PDT
by
Silly
(Okay, I'm getting just a little sick of this bereaved chicken-widow crap!)
To: SunkenCiv
Or, an archaeologist planted it there.
To: Larry Lucido; SunkenCiv
I knew someone who used to flintknap stone, just to see how it could have been done.
He said it was incredibly frustrating.
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posted on
06/11/2011 10:05:30 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
To: Larry Lucido
Interesting little mystery, thanks for the article.
To: SunkenCiv
We have a whole collection of tools that look like that. The Indians on the WA coast were still stone age in the 1800s. We have all sizes, too. You can tell that some are kid size. The Indians here probably used them to open clam shells, etc.
The one thing that no one seems to be able to identify looks like a stone hot dog.
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posted on
06/11/2011 10:16:45 PM PDT
by
Eva
To: SatinDoll
You have to be knappy-headed to do it right.
Seriously, people who learn the technique can put edges on the stone with amazing speed.
To: Lancey Howard
I no longer shop at Homo Depot. Here is the same item as offered at Loews.
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posted on
06/11/2011 10:23:22 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Herman Cain 2012)
To: SatinDoll
I knew someone who used to flintknap stone, just to see how it could have been done. He said it was incredibly frustrating.
I still know a guy that makes arrow heads, spear heads etc. It took him a long time to become and expert but he persevered, I guess it is just something you have to want to do for one reason or another.
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posted on
06/11/2011 10:29:04 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: Larry Lucido
They’re all sold out, here.
No rain-checks, either..:(
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posted on
06/11/2011 10:44:01 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(I wear my sunglasses at night.)
To: calex59
A friend of mine is a good flint knapper. He showed all of us how to do it - finding and selecting flints, finding and using good hammer stones, controlling the way the flint breaks, etc. It's actually fairly easy to get a cutting edge, but I can't imagine how much skill and time would be required to make a 10” Clovis point.
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posted on
06/11/2011 11:05:59 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: SunkenCiv
But how do you date something made from a chunk of rock? Very lucky that the guy decided to pick it up. I might have seen that and said, “oh, chunk of rock”.
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posted on
06/11/2011 11:44:47 PM PDT
by
Explorer89
(And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
To: SunkenCiv
They used obsidian once too but flint was much more durable.
And of course not that many had a convenient volcano in their neighborhood.
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posted on
06/12/2011 12:00:37 AM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: Lancey Howard
I no longer shop at Homo Depot. Their corporate policies were more conservative 400,000 years ago.
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posted on
06/12/2011 12:21:42 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
To: Eva
The one thing that no one seems to be able to identify looks like a stone hot dog. LOL!
To: Explorer89
But how do you date something made from a chunk of rock?My thoughts, too.
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posted on
06/12/2011 4:53:52 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the left the truth looks Right-Wing.)
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