Quartzite Keith
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A one time experiment many years ago with "Clovis platters." Raw Georgetown. I started out trying to drive the largest flakes I could off the biface using direct percussion with an elk antler hammer, testing the idea of the biface as a flake core. Once I got to a width to thickness ration of 8:1 the next attempt at a usable flake overloaded the system and the platter split.
Maintaining as much length and width as possible I used an antler punch to make two fluted knives, thinking that was the next logical step. If used future re-sharpenings would eventually morph these into fluted projectile points:
Sorry no pictures of the flakes. The board the finished pieces sit on is a 2 by 6.
Maintaining as much length and width as possible I used an antler punch to make two fluted knives, thinking that was the next logical step. If used future re-sharpenings would eventually morph these into fluted projectile points:
Sorry no pictures of the flakes. The board the finished pieces sit on is a 2 by 6.
