Just goes to show how creative you can be with aboriginal tools. You see the individual in every piece, the use , and how they made the tool for a specific job. I have a tool bag full of niche tools that I use occasionally for odd ball problems that occur. The material I work generally is metaquartzite generally use puches for finishing and notching, but the shaft punch I've been using really takes the cake because of how I'm able to get flake scars similar to the artifacts with it. I'm able to almost get them as thin as the old guys did, but still end up breaking them haha! Thanks for the video!
One of the coolest videos you've made so far. Flintknapping tools are my favorite artifacts to find and comparing the wear with your own tools is really interesting.
Hello Marty, very interesting to see and hear your thoughts, I have a lot of artifacts from Denmark, maybe I should make videos with them, I was not sure if people would find it interesting. Thanks
54 years ago, I dug a complete set of knapping tools along with a concave stone cup and two hematite pencils they would paint with. The pencils had different tips. One was pointed and the other was flat like a chisel. The diameter of them was about the size of a modern day pencil and about 3 inches long The shelter cave was about three miles southeast of Graham cave In Mineola, Missouri.
This is incredible!! Thanks so much for sharing I’ve noticed those knuckles or acorns as I call them are really hard all the way through the antler. Probably from the antler healing. I’m pretty sure those spots are caused by a parasite when the deers in velvet but don’t quote me on that.
Really cool stuff. Thank you for sharing. I have been messing around with a rock shaped like your plant fossil which I am trying to use for the same thing, thining and more delicate direct percussion work. I have also been experimenting with short antler punch’s. I am taking a couple steps backwards in my results when compared to my copper ishi stick but I am just really enjoying the process. There is really nothing cooler to me than using the abo tools to make a point.
That isn't a plant stalk fossil, it is a baculite. A fossilized squid like creature, those are all over South Dakota. The knobs at the end give it away.
This one was from Texas. If you can share any info/links to martyrueter@yahoo.com I’d appreciate it. Told by a few folks it was plant so I’d like to get it correct.
Saw your comment on Donny Dust’s hide scraping video today and recommended your own content to him. Will we be getting any more videos from you anytime soon? I check regularly
Do you have any videos using the pressure flake anvils? I found some a few years back. I knew they had to be something but didn’t know what they were until just now.
@@Flintknappingtips I watched the videos. Really interesting! I just want to make sure I’m understanding correctly. You’re either working in front of the anvil or behind it to create an air gap so that you’re not getting hinges on your flake terminations? Wish I had a way to send you pictures of the one I found 3 or four (I haven’t looked at them in years) on a spot all of them are different sizes.
@@leftfordread3967 you’re correct. I can also snap flakes off to keep thickness going forward in a series if need be. martyrueter@yahoo.com to send pics thanks
