Good point in the billets vs mechanical jigs used for fluting.
Bob Patten and others were using pegs and punches before Ben was born. That is where people soured on Ben's enthusiasm... claiming the one true enlightenment and his discovery of the technology wore thin. Heck, many knappers argue about abo tools (rock & antler) vs modern tools (slab saws, kilns, copper tools, delrin rods, complex mechanical fluting jigs, etc.), having someone come in and saying "you all are doing it wrong" didn't go over well.
Hello Joshua,
I would appreciate if you would cease and desist from publishing false information about me.
Some of the people who were witness to everything that transpired between 2010 and 2011 - not including you - know that the things that you are parroting ARE FALSE.
First of all, I was a member of multiple flintknapping groups in good standing from 2004 until 2010.
So, after six years of being "buddy buddy" with many flintknappers, what happened?
What happened is that in 2010 I was researching Lacadon flintknapping technology, and I ran across North American prehistoric evidence of the use of punches which were documented between the 1890's and the 1940's, under the name of "antler drift".
Thinking that no one knew about this information - as I never saw it on any flintknapping forum since 2014 - I returned with a "boatload" of information to present.
The answer from Bob Patten is that Native Americans did not use indirect percussion in bifacial reduction. Not taking "no" for an answer, I then proceeded to show for six solid months all of the evidence from both archaeology as well as historical records. Patten did finally break years later before he died. I know this from a top knapper.
Also, I presented the evidence in non-adversarial manner FOR SIX STRAIGHT MONTHS.
When I saw that I was not going to be treated fairly - AS YOU ARE AGAIN DOING NOW - I went after the top guy, when he went after me. And, he backed down once he saw that I was now taking the gloves off.
What was at stake is that these people were determined to disparage the WORK of over CENTURY'S WORTH OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS, AND HISTORICAL OBSERVERS.
The page that I created called "antlerdrift" was created in 2011 because the flintknappers said that they did not want any of the evidence on their pages. Huh! This is evidence that they previously denied EXISTED.
In 2012, top Danish Dagger replicator asked to go over the evidence that I had collected. And, he concluded that I had produced the biggest boatload of indirect percussion evidence that he had ever seen in 15 years of study. He also wrote two public apologies. He privately told me that he felt terrible for the way I had been treated. And, he publicly told Steve Nissly that I was owed an apology, because they created a pile on for six straight months, while I attempted to present evidence in a non-adversarial manner.
I was called "Mr. Indirect Percussion" as a matter of ridicule in 2010 while these so-called "flintknappers" maintained that I was WRONG:
Now, you want say that somehow they knew? I was forewarned that once people understood the technology they will change their tune one more time and lie and say, "Oh, we knew it all along." Really? After trying to make sure that the EVIDENCE was never shown on any flintknapping pages or groups? Why? Because THEY KNEW THAT THEY HAD NO IDEA. And, some of the top people spent decades unwittingly misleading people, WHILE THEY WERE IGNORANT OF THE FACTS.
As you must know, when suddenly a person gets involved in politics, and he suddenly is WINNING, then all of the sudden his opposition will have all sorts of stories to make up, that never existed until he started winning. That is what I did. That is why I never had a doubt about taking on 10,000 ignorant people, who were unacquainted with the facts.
Then, in February of 2015, after every experiment failed, I understood how to resolve tine-based overshot - something that they cannot do, and they make all sorts of nonsense childish stories about - and I produced the results on the second try, which by the way upends the top standing theories in the world. If you do not like that, then too bad! That is not my problem, it is your problem!
After producing the results, I showed both the tools, and the results, from February of 2015 until December 25th of 2017. And, for all of the hundreds or thousands of people who asked for an explanation, not one single person could figure it out. So, on Christmas Day of 2017 I released the explanation, finally. Why did I do that? Because I already know what a big pack of liars I was dealing with. And, to set the record straight, I made them wait for almost three years, before showing the actual process, simply so that they could not say, "Oh, we already knew."
See, I have been through the lying game over and over again, once I figured out that they do not have an earthly clue.
So, you can keep up your nonsense. But, I have zero respect for you. Also, YOU WERE NOT THERE. Bill knows how the same people tried to have me banned from four different forums, after they had been my friends for SIX YEARS! Why? Every honest person knows why. You do not have to admit the truth. Good for you! Philip Churchill, whom they all loved, perfectly explained why they had turned against me.
Have a nice day.
