Jack the angles can be corrected and controlled with turtle back flat face tools fashioned with flints underneath the preform. I've sure found enough of them and thought they were both wood working and point tools after trying it. Of course my finds weren't at a cave so it's purely speculation and one opinion with only documented western cave finds. My finds are mainly southeastern ground finds. One similarity is the sizes are mainly close to the same. Great video jack! Love watching your techniques.
It appears to me that part of the problem you have stabilizing the piece of antler with your Ishi stick is caused from using a large diameter stick as your base. If you look at the picture in the Pope book, the Ishi stick shown there is relatively small in diameter, compared to the antler piece; so, when you lash the antler piece to it, it restricts the antler from moving in both the x and y directional planes. And that stick shows the wraps along the entire length of the antler piece to further secure it. With your larger diameter base stick, the wrappings can only restrict the movement in the x direction but not the y plane because the straps are more parallel to the top of the antler but do not put much force upon the sides of the antler. You have effectively overcome this by cutting a notch to restrict the antler movement side ways in the y plane. If you don't want to use a notch, then a smaller diameter stick could be a solution. Not sure if I have said that clearly but I hope you get the point.
I agree, a smaller diameter "base stick" would eliminate the need for a notch but it would not be very comfortable for heavy work. The real one in the picture was for light work, I assume?
Hello, thank you for your countless hours of research and hands on explanation of childhood mysteries I encountered on the Horsehead crik in Fall River Co. SD. My theory is not supported by anyone, but I believe the hunting arrow heads recovered there were not for birds, but instead for fishing and buffalo from the variety of sizes, and stone materials. I believe some of them might have been ceremonial and not likely durable for hunting. I have zero education on these things, other than growing up on that land as a child of farmers and ranchers. I was unable to locate the exact spot, but there was a pottery community on our land also. I did some searching and found some of the home depressions, but ended up not having the capitol to pay for a proper dig with they young people from the universities. It became an unpleasant subject for some, that did not want to know anything about it, or let the universities on the place. I thought it was best to not tell anyone else and let that secret die, unless I had the cash to fund it correctly, to document it correctly layer by layer with all the applicable teams and talent, since several things are involved with the anthropology, and large human made mounds in the area as well. Then horrifically, along came a 2008 'shovel ready job' that no one wanted, a 4 lane highway to nowhere, and we, the landowners at the time, had zero recourse to stop it, so these areas were DESTROYED, with an entire 12-40 acre area that my Gpa set aside for a colony of nocturnal kangaroo rats and mice.. 2 different sizes. Then the rest of the farm was in a forced sale over Revelations 18:23 pharmakeia, but I still dream of finding a way to get proper researchers on that land, if I could ever buy it. I believe the pottery would be another important part of the story. I don't want to see the mounds disturbed, if they are what we believe them to be, unless there was an agreement with respect to local tribes, that no longer have a claim to the area, though some of the young people, they knew my intent was to share all findings with them, and tell the story of their early family history on that land to the whole world. What you are doing is important, we are one step of being back to a primitive society now, and less than 1 degree of separation. There are other complications. We learned the difficult way that the Feds ruin things, such as what they did with the Smithsonian in Larsen Bay Alaska, looting the gravesites and not doing much in the way of thoughtful documenting, and they did not treat the landowners well, the indigenous village people, my personal friends. To settle that, those involved need to go build a nice permanent structure there, return the items and put them on display for explanation. And for Dora Aga, that would include the ivory doll heads, with correct human features and likenesses, she wanted those returned for her people, so that they would know their history that the Fed Gov trash stole from them. - Robert Patrick Shuttlesworth - Hartman - Watson - Van Briggle, Mitchell, South Dakota retired profiler and recovery person, now I am into gardening for the neighbors and helping them raise their adult children.
You can back up your antler tip by wrapping cordage behind it tightly and putting a steeper angle on the landing on the wood. It will still move some but not nearly as much.
Liked the presentation. There have been a number of such presentations by several folks that have also presented interesting how tos. My thanks. I would guess that many if not all of these techniques, speaking generally, go way back. Likely to when the bifaced stone tools appeared in the archeological record. So, maybe at least 25,000 years ago with the Solutrean Culture?
Great video sir ! Thanks for sharing it with us, very informative & you certainly do all of us wannabes a very nice learning tutorial as always. We really appreciate your presentations & work.
Thanks Ed. Very glad you enjoyed the video. I almost thought I was going to run out of time yesterday. I spent a lot of time reading and getting distracted by other related subjects. :-)
Have you tried the Inuit pressure flaker as an indirect punch? It looks to me that it could be better utilized under the thigh and hit with a billet. Consider the environment that the tooling was used. This is also represented in the fire making techniques of the Inuit culture. I enjoy your videos and you expertise, think "out side" of the mainstream thinking. Much of the information we have today is inaccurate at best. Many writers of their times were just trying to make a living, many had a direct agenda to misinform the public and indoctrinate us to the belief that "INDIANS were SAVAGES. They really did MISS the mark. Keep up the good work.
Thanks. Yes, the inuit style flaker can be used on stone that is easy to chip. But the main adantage of the indirect technique is to create powerful strikes. This requires a strong tool. A wood handle is not very strong in this case.
Recheck your map. Klamath is a Basin, Mountain range, River, County, City, (Klamath Falls) and Fort in Oregon and California has many things called Klamath as well. All named for the Klamath Tribe. My neighborhood.
Ishi was one of the last wild Indians in California. He knew all the "old ways" of his tribe and spent time showing people how he flintknapped, among other things, before he died from TB. A Google search will reveal more details.
