Making a Super Thin Biface, Part 1 

Its been a long time, glad the vids are still useful to folks, thanks

Yes, it is a 5 part series. It should show up. My platforms are very similar to Woody's, although he sometimes isolates them a bit more. Hope you can find part 2, I just checked and it is there.....jim

NYWAORCANZ yep, those aren't projectile points though, they're blades for cutting/butchering. most projectile points that I've seen are on the thick side where as knives can be very thin like the ones in the video

Good question. A very few were so thin as to be impractical to use, very fragile. I think some of these guys were either showing off or maybe even competing to see who could make the thinnest biface. Most of the really super thin ones have been found in central Texas

@@paleomanjim This is something that interests me. You just KNOW that guys were using these to impress and gain clout. My guess is some sort of trade and gifting including impressing women. Maybe even for a marriage exchange, bride price, etc. I think I've read some stuff on this but I don't remember really what. The thing is people ALWAYS do this kind of stuff. There had to be more talented and less talented knappers and there had to be knappers who specialized and probably made a living or part of a living at it. There also had to be heirloom pieces and ritual pieces and maybe even pieces believed to have magical power maybe for healing or for making hunts or war more successful or communicating with the ancestors. One thing you can depend on is metaphor. If a knife can cut then it won't be long before someone will get the idea it can do something like cut the veil between this world and the world of spirits or something and then people start producing blades which are magical instead of practical. And then there's just plain aesthetics.