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Native American projectile point (flint, c. 8000-6000 BC)

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Did some flint-knapping to avoid writing my paper today, and I remembered to take before and after pictures!

Here's the dacite flake with very little serious flaking done:

And here's the finished lanceolate point it became:

I cleaned up the platform a bit with hard hammer percussion, but the rest was done with an antler pressure flaker.

Turned out pretty good, actually. At 1 1/4 inch it's a bit small for the (theoretical at this point) atlatl, but still functional.

I'm trying to teach myself to think about projectile points the way people who actually used them archaeologically did, which involves a lot of making points out of whatever stone I have, packing them around in my pocket, using them for random tasks they weren't necessarily meant for, and breaking or losing them occasionally.

My brain immediately files them under "treasure", but I need it to start putting them somewhere near "box cutter blade".

It's a work in progress.

#oh no none of THAT in HERE #archaeology #experimental archaeology #flint knapping #pressure flaking #projectile point #anthropology #for the record i took those after pictures with great difficulty #because the cat wanted very badly to sit on the point #also the dog was very concerned about how long i sat outside working on this #what sort of rules do you think stone age people had about flint knapping in the house?#do you think the hunters got out their toolkits and the nearest grandmother went #and shooed them all out into the cold?

Past peoples in the Upper Mississippi Valley crafted lithic tools from many different types of stone, each with its own qualities. A wide range of raw materials were used, including varieties of chert, silicified sandstone (orthoquartzite), rhyolite, and sometimes quartz, like this projectile point from north-central Wisconsin. Multiple factors played into why people used certain types of stone, including availability, how easy they were to work, and the quality and kinds of tools that could be produced. This point has a notch in one edge but not the other. It might have been left unfinished due to issues with the quartz, which tends to break along fracture planes that can complicate knapping and final touches. The small size and general form of the point might indicate a later precontact time frame.

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professor hands us an artifact: be careful ! that’s eleven thousand years old

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Found my first projectile point ever!

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