monsterrack
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- Apr 15, 2013
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I walk a lot of creeks for all types of artifacts. In my area we get lucky and find Ice age animal bones from time to time. I found this broken bone that came from the end of an ice age horse leg bone, I noticed it had a lot of old rodent chew marks on it and tossed it in my bag. Later after washing it off I noticed the way that the bone was broken was not a normal break from time in the creek or something just putting pressure down on it. I carried it to some Archaeologist and a Paleontologist that I know and without any one saying a word they came to the same conclusion that I did. It was broken by prehistoric man with a stone to get to the marrow in the bone. It has a place of honor now in my collection. The 1st photo shows the percussion break.
The last photo show another strike. This is what learning about flint knapping taught me, it's called fracture mechanics.
The last photo show another strike. This is what learning about flint knapping taught me, it's called fracture mechanics.
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