Whenever I see older people complaining about kids these days being unable to write cursive or drive a stick shift I always wonder of there was a point where someone was like "kids these days can't even make spear tip out of stone"
I know what you mean. Many years ago when I was a very small child, my uncles (very much against my Grandfathers wishes) had bought a panel truck to do the deliveries for the family business. Grandpa warned them that "that dang thing" would leave them stranded in the boonies some day. He said we've been using horses to get around for thousands of years, and saw no good reason to change. Well, years later when they finally retired the old truck it got stuck in the lane to the barn. So while my uncles were trying to get it out Grandpa told us kids to go get old Nell (his plow horse) plow harnessed to pull "that dang thing" out. Off we went to the barn...Grandpa came out to the barn after a while when we hadn't come back and was surprised Nell was still in her stall. Why haven't you kids harnessed her up? he asked. We said 'we don't know how to harness a horse Grandpa' The look of astonishment and pity on his face was a picture! Must have been something like your old flint knapper, eh?
Lol, I have to same reaction my kids have no clue how internal combustion engines work or what a 2 or 4 stroke engine cycle is or what manual transmission’s are. They then laugh when I don’t know what different computer languages are, what they do or are programmed.
When kids these days apply their minds to committing their thoughts(?) to writing, I wonder if they know the difference between diving and driving; or, between if and of. Further, spelling seems optional and punctuation, random guesses.
@@KevinSmith-os5yz the main problem is chimps aren't as effective as teaching as early humans It's one thing to teach a chimp chimps make spears but it's another to have it teach its young and also show them how to teach
"Paleolithic may have actually been much more peaceful than we often think" made me think of Robert E Howards quote, " Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split"
But in the Paleolithic, survival depended on everyone cooperating and participating. And aside from walking away and trying to find another tribe to join, in a thinly populated world, you couldn't just change jobs or move to a new neighborhood.
I think that is why rural people have a reputation for hospitality. While it doesn't seem true for everywhere, I live in Mississippi and there are a lot of deep holes in some of the countries thickest woods and everyone has something in their pocket. Blatant rudeness and open aggression isn't something I have seen much of outside of urban areas here. Even assholes at least tolerate others.
It's kind of mind boggling thinking about just how LONG the stone age lasted. People think "It ended 5,000 years ago, that's a long time ago" but don't usually realize that it lasted exponentially longer than any other age. Human brains just aren't built to appreciate how long it was.
These methods were still used in Australia 200 years ago, many naked people still living with nature. But Europeans put an end to it, killing a few million free people.
Flash in the pan. Besides, it was not so much our brains that took us out of the Stone Age but ever-accumulating knowledge exponentially increasing. That was the cause. We have the same brains, just more knowledge plus a three ring circus.
Once you know how, it is pretty easy to learn to make stone tools and can be done quite quickly. Knocking a blade from a core takes just a second and with just this one thing, you can butcher a large animal. Developing the knowledge from scratch, yes, that took many, many, generations. Interesting that some of the best stone tools were done in the Americas, where the stone age lasted right up to the 1400-1600's.
You would be surprised how fast the learning curve is. When whether you eat or not depends on it. You can go from beginner to master in less than a year.
No hard rocks can be broken without creating a cutting edge. One reasonably well placed 10" deep wound is lethal to all large land animals. Death in a minute, a day, or a week is of little matter. They can run but can't hide.
I’m working on a project right now at Uni about this exact topic. Granted it a graphic design project since I’m a design student but this video released at a perfect time for me to have good sources for it! Amazing video my friend!
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Spear throwers, known as woomeras in Australia, made the heavy spear a fearsome weapon. I have a book written by a missionary in Arnhem Land (north east Northern Territory) in the 1930s to 40s. On festival days, they would hold a spear-throwing competition for the men. He said the hunters could regularly spear the trunk of a banana palm, i.e. about 150-200mm diameter or 6"-8" at 80 paces, or about 75m, using 3m spears with bone or stone tips. The hunters of Papua-New Guinea used bow and arrow but they were not used in Australia, probably because most timber here is hardwood and not suited to bows. But it made superb spears.
I was going to say the same thing but thought I'd check first to see if any other Aussies got in first.ive been to Arnhem land an it's still a tool weapon how ever you want to call it in use today fishing mainly because now they have Guns for buffalo an such..
@@jeffbamford805 well long ago buffaloes and bullocks and large introduced species wasn't here yet so spears was effective against native animals.. I like to see you go against buffaloes with the primitive spears... 😅
Eagerly awaiting the “Violence in Prehistoric Societies” video, a super interesting topic. It’s amazing how a massacre 10,000 years old or more can be noticed and reconstructed by archaeologists. People are wild.
And YES to the idea of covering Aztec warfare, weaponry, and more. Like 'Alexander the Great and the Giants' (old but gold) and the last part, with the war elephants.
multiple micro points in addition the the arrowhead itself would keep the animal bleeding, and keep cutting. Even if the arrowhead itself hit a bone or non life threatening area, the lineup of micro blades would keep working every time the animal moved. Very, very effective.
My bro is a landscaper and found a stone arrow head here in Ireland working on a garden and brought it to a university and the guy said it was probably 5000yrs old, maybe it was made by an ancestor who knows, Ireland is a small place
Australian here. Real boomerang do come back. There are 2 types, one for hunting which is like an L shape and does not return and then the common curved type, which is for foraging high up in trees and does return.
Years ago, a sister in law took a vacation to Australia, brought back a boomerang to my children. They enjoyed using it in an open field. Once it was thrown & never returned. We never could find it. It was well crafted & a beautiful piece of wood.
I’ve made a few returning boomerangs, and when made right & thrown correctly they really do come back - right to you with practice. But you do have to catch them correctly to avoid getting whacked by the tips.
Extremely difficult to make and required immense skill. I laugh when people ask just how sharp or effective these tools are. We literally hunted mammoths with them lol
I'm glad you appreciate the beauty of these creations. Many in the scientific community seem to heavily, if not completely, dehumanize the past. They forget that behind every artifact, there was a real person with relationships, dreams, fears, etc. Thanks for that.
Agreed.. Technology has advanced but a lot has remained the same .. If the lost all our knowledge tomorrow.. We'd be look at Stone age people and tools as advanced knowledge..
The movie "Ice Man" is a must-see for anyone interested in Stone Age life. No other movie humanized Stone Age people like "Ice Man." The dialog, though sparse, was actually in a reconstruction of the language of the Swiss Alps region where Otzi the Ice Man was found.
North 02, You forgot about the use of teeth in stone aged weapons. In particular, shark tooth swords used by the stone aged cultures in Hawaii and other Pacific islands. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiomano for an intro, but the one depicted was small. I have seen ones found from the Battle of Nuʻuanu that were horrifying and beautiful, two feet of tiger shark teeth.
Are you aware of the technique to get better flakes off of a flint rock? You heat a flint chunk slowly in a fire and allow it to cool slowly.best if you get it hot then transfer it to a pile of dry leaves where it can smolder and cool slowly. You can get better and longer more consistent flakes.
@@phillip6083 I mainly Knapp obsidian, you don’t need to do that with obsidian. I don’t know where to find any natural flint as of now so I haven’t had to heat treat it.
@@NORTH02 Texas has amazing flint, chart, jasper, and on and on! The best place to get any Flint napping needs is Texas, although West Coast obsidian rocks and my husband has made an absolute ton of arrowheads out of obsidian. Deadly sharp as he well knows from the thousands of cuts on his hand from each Arrowhead he makes.
Another great video North, a lot of information in this to unpack but I definitely appreciate that you mentioned the tools and weapons that originated from Africa. You always show the importance of Africa, especially when it comes down to our beginning as a species. Can't wait to show this to others who love prehistoric weapons, continue to do great work bud.
Arrivederci e grazie per questo splendido documentario!!! 😊 I'm Italian but luckily I'm bilingual, so yeah, I love your videos!! 😊 Keep up the great work 👍
The stone age hasn't really ended. If you take into account places like the deep amazon rain forest, Papua New Guinea and the Sentinelese Island - there are people still living according to stone age technology. Btw - I would love a video about this subject.
@@michaelpacnw2419 Not really, I mean mezoamericans lived in large cities, the would send their kids to "schools", they paid taxes. Less advanced than the old-world sure but "stone age"?!
@@M414-q6o Actually, yes. Archeologists break up civilizations in to categories. Stone Age, then Bronze Age, then Iron Age. The inhabitants of the Americas were still in the stone age and had not discovered the wheel when contacted by Europeans. They had a few (very few) native copper (meaning they found a chunk of pure copper) pieces that they ground in to axes, but had no idea how to smelt or work the metal with heat. Hell, they hadn't even figured out how to bake bricks.
I’m 41 and I grew up in farm country and my father had us make and hunt with all of these weapons and we even made boomerangs. We cheated and used a grinder for making stone tips as the new flint knapping hobby really wasn’t around then. It brings back memories of of my dad’s bookshelf full of Native American illustrated coffee table books with arrows and spears and whatever and how we’d go to the Milwaukee and Chicago museums at least once a year. I guess that’s why I cast a bronze xiphos blade sword in the backyard with my daughter for a school project when she was about 13
@@SolracCAP we had a really good time but the sword had issues of flash freezing causing massive pitting when 2100 degree F mixture of copper/tin/lead hit the 500F mold. I was disappointed with the result but she loved it because it looked like a relic found on the bottom of the Aegean Sea and we documented the whole process and she received an A
How to start a sunday, North02 new video of course. Great video, they sure were great our ancestors. Looking forward to you release a video of you flint knapping. Look up Phil Harding from England, he was on time team some years back, he is an experp in flint knapping, not sure what videos or read material he have about it but it got to be something. Thank you North02 for making the start of my day great ❤
He forgot to talk about the Hawaiian weapons that used the shark's teeth. Much like the macuahuitl, the Hawaiians called it Leiomano. Also there were many different kinds of styles. There were also ultra sharpened wood paddle/clubs to cut. They were used more for a weapon than anything else since they were made up completely of wood
I watched your video on the Clovis culture a few months ago and had I not, I would have totally overlooked the hand axe I found back in March. I live in the midlands of South Carolina in an old farm house that was originally a twin dog trot log cabin. The property has been in my family since the 1800s and many artifacts have been found over the years. I have my grandmother's collection and my wife and I have been adding to it for the past few years. It's such a thought-provoking experience to find them and consider their histories and previous owners.
They still use obsidian scalpel blades for cosmetic surgery since the edge of the blade is so fine it causes less tearing of the skin and thus less of a scar than even the best steel blade.
Loved this one 👏👏👏 never saw the beauty of stone napping before, but those Danish daggers... Damn, man! And yours were cool too - Happy hunting! What was that green arrow/spear head made of?
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Human nature always proclives towards excellence, whether for good or for evil. We strive to compete with each other and nature in mind, body and spirit. This could be our ultimate salvation or our final undoing. Only time will tell. I must say, I look forward to your uploads on RU-vid. It's that excellence I was talking about earlier. Thanks for your efforts. We are all the better for them.
To see a cinematic depiction of atlatl use in intertribal conflict, the Australian flic "Ten Canoes" by David Gumpalil (who starred in Walkabout) The film leaves no doubt about how effective an atlatl dart can be..
Clovis points: I would flute the points, after the basic shape was crafted, then do the fine knapping around the edges. That way I don't risk breaking a finished point.
Great video:) I remember hearing a couple of years ago that there were also spear type weapons in the same style as the macahuitl in mesoamerica. With large bladed sections looking more like polearms than spears imo. But tbh. I am not quite sure myself where I heard that so I would take that info with a mouthfull of salt.
Bows are fairly new. Atl Atls were the most common tool used by Stone Age humans. Here in the United States, there is evidence of the Atl Atl being used as late as 800 AD, here in the US.
It would be amazing if you made a part 2 continuation of this video where you talk about the weapons of the bronze age. Also, this is a really well done video, one of your best! But I do kind of miss the videos about dinos..
As a kid, I found a huge pile of slate behind the dead brush in the backyard of my moms apartment. I learned quickly slate was easy to break but also made "Native American" spear heads. Just using 3 rocks I had a bunch of toy spears and arrows (even though vows used old Christmas ribbon and never worked).
I would add a correction…The bow came thousands of years after the Atlatl…not before… I've talked with some that think the Atlatl has been around for 100,000 years plus or minus
Yeah it's well known that the atlatl is a minium of 60,000 years old and has been around much longer than the bow. Also he was wrong about the Clovis people who were in the Americas for much longer than 600 years they thrived here for a few thousand years and most likely showed up a couple of thousand years earlier than we think.
@@chadklaren9537 Yes...also the ATLATL is a hunting tool found in every primitive hunting culture...from Australia to the Arctic...they all have their own word for it...ATLATL comes from South or Central America
Cottontails are best harvested after a good frost or light snowfall. Helps kill off tainted or sick rabbits, as well as fleas and ticks they might be have on board. Very excited for you, your arrowheads look fantastic!
@@got2kittys lean white meat, not stringy like a jackrabbit. Soft, easily worked hide. Perfect target for a novice hunter. Best in stews or parted out and fried. It’s no venison, but it’s good eating.
Your voice is so calm and soothing, aaaaaaah :) I love the pace of this video. You just get straight to it and kept me entertained for 28 minutes. Great work. I'm going to check out your other videos
Not sure how I missed this one, but I fixed that, now. Yet another top-notch video, as always, North! I really love the many layers, from the voice so easy on the ear, to the fantastic writing, to the quality of the images, and the professional look! You deserve to be working for one of the big history channels, with a paycheck big enough to make you set for life. 🙂 Very well done! ❤️❤️
The greatest advantage of the spear wasn't only that it could kill quickly but that it could kill from a distance. By using a tool instead of their hands/teeth to kill early human were able to remove themselves from a significant amount of danger associated with hunting. For predators like wolves and lions there's always a chance that their prey can kick/bite them bad enough to seriously injured simply due to the fact they have to make physical contact with their prey to kill it. Using a spear meant that if the prey fought back during a hunt they were more likely to damage the spear rather then the person holding it. And once humanity discovered the throwing spear the race to being a apex predator was all but decided.
Weapons, even hand-held ones, give an immense advantage to the user over other predators. Any bite attack inherently leaves the neck vulnerable to a counterattack; but a weapon has the attacker keeping their neck at least a limb-length away from the point of attack. The other huge advantage of a thrusting spear is that it can use the force of the victim to kill the victim, not that of the attacker. Bracing the butt of the spear on the ground and holding it low with both hands to receive the charge of the attacker meant that the killing stroke is powered by the victim’s mass, not the attacker’s strength.
As always, a brilliant vid. Am a huge fan. Have you ever looked into the tools used by indigenous Australians. Stone tipped spears and woomeras are still made there today to hunt large game.
I have seen a spear point made out of an old coke bottle that washed up in Western Aust. It was on a doco. It was stunning. The atlatl is usually referred to as a woomera generally in Australia.
I thank you sir for this little trip through history. I live in the Big Bend area of Texas and have found many uni-face tools, blades and points which are obviously very, very old. They are made of a stone which, when broken, is jet black but will weather to a brown or grey color. Some of these are "fully weathered" including the edges. I know that sites around here have been dated to 15,000 years old but l believe these tools are MUCH older than that. Into the 25,000 year range or more. In addition, l have also found beautifully made, finely knapped points. The technological difference between the uni-face and bi-face points is easy to see. Thank you again for a very well made and informative video.
Thanks North O2....you've made my weekend. I love it when you post....I know I'm in for a trip of thinking and learning. Excellent work, as always, man. Happy Easter Weekend to you and your family guy. That Dalton Point at 7:50 is one of my favorite types. I've found dozens of them in KY/TN over the last 20 plus years. I've also found one whole Cumberland near Ft Campbell....best day of hunting I've ever had.....even the few broken ones I've found are absolutely exciting.
I'm very pleased to have discovered your channel. This is the first one I've watched and I'm going to subscribe and watch them all as the subject matter is interesting for me. That's all I have to say besides, great job! You're very talented and obviously hard working and the end result produced this entertaining and informative show and I'm sure your other work matches this measure. I'll let you know, I promise. You set the bar pretty high, lol.
The one thing you add to your narrative that I adore. You emphasize even the experts don't have all the answers. Even with massive amounts of evidence. They still can at best make a educated guess. With less evidence comes even more guess work
Good stuff! You should definitely make some content about the conquest of the Aztecs. Cortes' campaign is an incredible story, but know that that the superior weapons and technology of Cortes and his goons is always over-empahasized. It was through clever diplomacy and guile that Cortes was able to amass an overwhelmingly large alliance of native tribes who despised the Aztecs. That was the decisive factor, not the steel, gunpowder, and horses of a few hundred Spanish desperadoes. Although the well-equipped conquistadores were brutally effective in battle, they were much more valuable as a small elite cadre around which the allied army could be rallied.
It was the massive alliance and the weapon no one even saw: Disease. Small pox, influenza, diseases that the Indigenous Americans never even dealt with wiped out hundreds of thousands.
"These tools are very sophisticated!" - Phil Harding, Time Team The stone tips tools and hand axes may look simple, but without them, many humans in the tougher climate would not have survived. No hunting, no clothes, no nothing. We'd still be sitting in tropical forest trees.
AmazIng amazing amazing!! I can’t wait to get home and watch this over and over again. Thank you so much for your amazing content and all the work you put into your videos. 🙏🙏
There are stone tool craftsman's shows. They are always happy to show how it is done or even to help get you started. Letchworth State Park near Rochester N.Y. has one late in the summer.
A few years back I made some considerable effort to learn flint knapping. I found it very easy to make an edged weapon with which I could brutally cut myself. Making a weapon adequate to damage some other creature would not have taken any more than growing up in another society and working hours a day for years on mastering the skill. At least I did find out that finding a sharp stone and splitting the end of a straight branch was possible and it did make a weapon that with the assistance of a couple other people armed in the same manner (and at least one of them throwing speed ball pitches with fist-sized rocks) could probably convince a fair sized predator to hunt for something else to eat. Simply finding and finishing that crude weapon took a day of hard work (finding a plant to make binding from was very hard). Of course, my stick with a sharp rock could not have prevailed in a one-on-one battle with a panther or similar. but realizing that lacking a convenient hospital most predators could not afford to suffer an even moderately serious injury. In spite of what they might want to show on discovery predators do not fight to the death (save perhaps in protecting the young) Predators have to win a battle of some kind every few days for their entire life - and never suffer an injury that would put them down even for a couple of weeks. Since the predators can not risk significant injuries it becomes clear how small clans that stay alert and have sharp sticks and thrown rocks could survive.
Slings are pretty awesome. Around 200 BC during the Second Punic War, Hannibal used them well and there was there where medical texts from approximately the same time describing methods of removing lead shot loosed from slings.
Slings were awesome, and even out-performed bows in range and power. So why were slings replaced by bows and crossbows? It's pretty simple. Actually, the sling wasn't, as it took YEARS for a slinger to actually be deadly. Bows were easier to train with, and crossbows, far more so (but both were common in Medieval Europe), until they were replaced by the firearm. "If you want to train a man in archery, start with his grandfather. If you want to train him with a musket, start Tuesday."- Old Military Saying
As a person that has done some flint knapping for fun I can tell you that it sucks trying to do clovis points. I'm definitely no expert and have only made 6 points successfully but it's one I wanted to try because they are my absolute favorite type of arrow/spearhead. I haven't done any knapping in years but have thought about doing it again and trying to make a bow to actually use what I make
Depends on which one. All of them were stronger than us but Australopithecus couldn’t run for very long so if you were far enough away, you could probably run and keep your distance. Probably catching you over short distances though. Now Erectus on the other hand was strong and he could run for extremely long distances.
I live in rural Southeast Alabama. I have been finding stone tools in fields here for 35 years. Through self education, I have learned what Mode 1 Oldowan through Mode 5 microblade is. Here I have found every phase of stone tool technology. Hand axes, Levoillois, and very few Oldowan tools. I also see abundant Archaic to Mississippian stone tools. What is puzzling to me is that the plows drag them all up from no deeper than 14 inches.
I am sorry but I do not believe your claims. You must be misidentifying certain objects. If these artifacts were common and authentic, there would already be extensive research on them.
the Natives were using stone age tools up until very recently so 14 inches below the surface doesn't seem to strange, that cool that you find so much stuff, a metal detector might come in handy, you never know what you might find
I've been napping and teaching for 25 years. Very fascinating hobby. And I believe prehistoric man bragged about the beautiful points that he or she made. Just like we do today, 😁
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How about the average rock? They are everywhere and lethal at short distance with practice. I think a lot of people would have achieved savant like levels of accuracy with rocks. I'm not sure how we would find evidence though apart from skull fractures. I'm teaching my daughter how to throw rocks as a self defence, I figure there is always something that can be thrown should she need weapon one day. This way she will almost always have one hand. She is becoming very accurate.
My Father told a tale of a childhood friend who threw a green walnut and 'brained' a squirrel off a low limb; he often carried a throwing rock with him on his walk to school (he got a rabbit, once).
@@johnshields9110 I'm getting to be a good shot as well, at least better than I began. I reckon the accuracy levels would have been astounding back when it was only rocks getting thrown. Excellent hunting weapon but the idea of a rock war between our distant ancestors sounds absolutely brutal.
@@natalielambert4378 As a kid, and trying to match my 4 brothers, I did a lot of rock and hard dirt clod throwing (lived on a real, rural farm). I learned to throw by watching the baseball pitchers know as submariners (low to high arch). I concur that an ancient war with rocks, even a fleeting one, would have been awful.
Put her in jiu jitsu instead. If shes in a bad situation with a man, he will have to be grappling with her to do what he wants, like rape, or dominating her. Sure, in a fistfight, men always have the advantage, 9 out of 10 times, due to their strength advantage. But teach her how to fight from off of her back, and she can put a much larger and stronger man to sleep using technique alone. She wont always be able to throw a rock, but she will always be able to put a full grown man to sleep with just a year of jiu jitsu classes. One big take away from what ive said is that a man must be in a grappling position to rape a girl. When she learns to properly triangle choke, she wont have to worry about that too much anymore. Much love to you and your family! I hope ive helped in some way. I truly hope no harm ever comes to her, but in case harm comes, she will be prepared with jiu jitsu! Cheers!
Stone tools did not stop being used with the onset of metallurgy, if anything they became more sophisticated. Some of the most impressive stone axes are found in the middle of Hallstatt. Romans where making stone tools in at the height of classical antiquity.
Hunting animals with selfmade stone age weapons just for the sake of trying it out or for the fun of it is animal cruelty. Only in the case of primitive peoples who are skilled in using these weapons and depend on them for survival the use of this kind of weapons can be morally justified. It's very hard to kill an animal wth stone age weapons without making it suffer and killing an animal without necessity is always reprehensible.
How long do you think a rabbit is going to live with an inch wide slice right through it? If he's good enough to hit a rabbit with those arrows, it will kill just as fast if not faster than a body shot with a .22 rifle.. i know people who hunt rabbits with a bow and they use special rabbit tips that don't burrow into the grass so the arrows don't get lost and those arrows kill very quickly even though they don't have a sharp tip and they don't cause a wound anywhere near as big as those stone broad heads will do.. those broad heads are inline with what is used for hunting large game like deer and are very much over kill on rabbits
@@jzjzjzj You make it way too easy for yourself. There is a big difference between killing an animal out of need and killing an animal without any necessity.
The quality of your videos ie fantastic! Mayby you could make a Video bout the Daily lifes of the stone age people You could also go into the subject of Split work , and if it realy just was men that went hunting
"Let's talk about the most common weapon or tool of the stone age" Rocks! - old and trusty as mother Earth herself. When all else fails? Grab a nice, broad rock.
There's quite a bit of flint around my house and I have tried numerous occasions to make a flint spear tip It's easy to make a sharp edge hard to make one shape like a spear tip
what a great informative video you have mande and i love your voice and the way you narrate the video, it makes it so pleasing on the ears to us that have English as 2. language please keep making videos
Alot of people like to make Unga bunga jokes and think of the cartoonish stereotypical caveman and are seen as dumb. I have nothing but praise and respect for anyone who lived in that period. I know for a fact if I was dumped into that right now without guidance, I wouldn't survive. Just so cool how far we've come and its all thanks to our talented and strong ancestors.
I often "hunt arrowheads" (in a very amateurish fashion) with moderate success. Though I've found nice examples of completed chert arrow heads that I value, I've found larger hand tools assumed to be scrapers and possibly hand axes, and even tiny arrowheads that I could only imagine would be for extremely small game, possibly even fish (entire piece sets well within the boundary of a US cent). That said, one of the things I find more fascinating is when I get into an area with a large concentration of chips. I can only assume it was an area used over a long period of time, a tooling camp or workshop if that is appropriate to say. Many broken tips and and other points scattered around. A great deal of effort over a long period of time by many workers. Those broken points, though? I can imagine a young man sitting in one spot, working a piece for hours, almost done, and *crack*.... Ever seen a mechanic throw a tool after snapping off a rusted bolt? That's what I imagine. *FLING* Maybe that's how some pieces end up far separate from the bulk, often off in the woods.
I also wonder if areas like that which I mentioned, covered in chips, may have been an area for training in the craft. You can tell there was a large range of experience and craftsmanship in the various pieces found in a single area, obviously not done by the same person. Learning how to 'read' the piece you're working on, knowing when to stop, when to keep working, and more importantly (based on some of the examples I've found) when to give up on that piece and start another. Some pieces showed precise work, others seemed extremely amateur and heavy-handed.
