Insistence of being worked

[IMAUDIGGER]

This video is a decent example of why people here insist seeing obvious evidence of man working an object before its classified an artifact.

Granted many tools might not be as labor intensive https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Xc2NUyTTI.but they took some deliberate effort:

What do you all the no about this?

 

[unclemac]

notice how little actual time went into making an obvious tool

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

notice how little actual time went into making an obvious tool

Yet how much evidence is apparent. Repeated strikes and blows and polishing. An average conveniently shaped stone will not show any effort.

 

[Older The Better]

notice how little actual time went into making an obvious tool

I used to think a tool took a lot of effort and time to create but they can really be made in 15 minutes or probably less, changed my perspective on how a na might have valued a point.

 

[unclemac]

true, but sometimes you find a work of art. ..and then there are all those G10's on ebay

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Well that axe wasn’t a work of art and took a bit of effort (if you all watched the video),

 

[Older The Better]

I tried the first time it got to the knapping then my internet failed me... like usual. Watched h The whole thing just now. Like I said you can knap a tool pretty quick. looked like much more work to polish and haft though

 

[dognose]

Interesting video.

Very likely that was not his first tool or time to perform the total process. It would be interesting to know how many he had made.

Practice and persistence.

 

[Quartzite Keith]

To one extent or another I've done everything he shows. i would think he put at least 10 hours into it. The material looks like Catoctin Greenstone (metabasalt) or something very similar. The grinding alone on that was probably five hours. The fire shaping of the handle was awesome. That is actually harder than it looks, that guy has had some practice! That part would take me a good five hours by itself.

 

[Force_of_Iron]

Generally the Indians had a lot of time on their hands to do these things. This was done primarily pre internet.

 

[unclemac]

that is what i was thinking....10 hours is nothing when you have all day

 

[Tdog]

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[unclemac]

well I know i am tuned to the seasons...i live in the woods and I pretty much align my day with sunlight....more activity in the summer and early to bed in the winter.

 

[Huzzah!]

Wow that is a badass video Digger! Thanks for sharing!

Gives a better sense of abraders.