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Re: ABO Composite Flakers (reply) Walrus mandible pressure flakers in wood handles with sinew. Based on Dorset Palaeoeskimo pressure flakers from the Eastern Arctic and Newfoundland and Labrador. The wedge shaped flaker tip is scarfed in place in a shallow... |
Old-Tool/Aboriginal Knapping | 10/10/12 3:22 PM |
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Re: Slate knives, pics of mine and questions? (reply) LukeWebb wrote:Hey, check this out! Have you ever heard of the glue he mentions for hafting the slate blade? http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.e...Uluaqs/historyuluaq.htmlThat's interesting. I've tried straight seal blood as a glue and it... |
General Primitive Skills Discussion | 04/22/11 3:33 PM |
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Re: Can YOU identify these rocks? (reply) Some of it could be a silicified slate (the greenish core, especially), but the top nodule which you made the grey points from looks like a chert to me as well as the very last photo of the brownish core. It might be on the coarse end... |
Flintknapping - General Discussion | 04/17/11 2:46 PM |
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Re: Can YOU identify these rocks? (reply) The internal flaws, fracture, and texture are all very familiar as is the outside weathering of the cortex. They probably have a similar origin and history - forming in old sea floor sedimentary rocks and now eroding out along an active... |
Flintknapping - General Discussion | 04/17/11 12:11 AM |
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Re: Can YOU identify these rocks? (reply) It looks a lot like the chert I collect in Newfoundland. Its probably all related somehow - I think we're in the same big Geologic province running down to the Appalachian Mountains. http://elfshotgallery.blo...ndland-chert-photos.html |
Flintknapping - General Discussion | 04/16/11 10:41 PM |
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Re: walking pigeon toed (reply) eskimoboy wrote:http://www.firstpeople.us...nds/Mudjikiwis-Cree.htmlI've never heard about girls being taught to walk pigeon-toed, but its interesting. In Eskimoboy's reference above, a person's gender could be distinguished... |
General Primitive Skills Discussion | 04/16/11 10:22 PM |
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Re: Slate knives, pics of mine and questions? (reply) LukeWebb wrote:Oh, and one more thing...does anyone know a good way to rough out slate? What I did was carefully chipped it away with a hammerstone, but this causes layers to peel off back away from the edge as it doesn't knap at... |
General Primitive Skills Discussion | 04/15/11 2:46 PM |
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Re: Maritime Archaic Barbed Fish Spear (reply) Rattamahatta wrote:Wow, that is just an amazing peace of work! I love how authentic and used a "feel" the pigmentation gives to the spear. Hope you'll make more! I was also thinking, wouldn't it be worth a shot to build one with the... |
Misc Primitive Weapons | 04/15/11 11:38 AM |
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Re: Maritime Archaic Barbed Fish Spear (reply) Thanks Chris! I used a rotary tool to add the notches. If I were to use something from the Maritime Archaic toolkit I'd probably have used a flake to incise the barbs. The only other tool that comes to mind from this... |
Misc Primitive Weapons | 04/14/11 3:52 PM |
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Maritime Archaic Barbed Fish Spear (topic) This is a reproduction of a Maritime Archaic Indian Fish Spear based on 4400-3300 BP artifacts found at Port au Choix, Newfoundland and Labrador. I got a lot of ideas about possible ways to assemble the prongs from posts here on... |
Misc Primitive Weapons | 04/14/11 3:07 PM |
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Re: Videos: My Inderect Percussion Technique (reply) That's pretty cool - thanks for sharing! Nice results. |
Flintknapping - General Discussion | 04/08/11 9:24 PM |
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Re: Awsome Rhyolite Points (reply) There is a geologist at Memorial University in St. John's who is doing a sourcing study on the stone using non-destructive laser ablation. There is one large rhyolite quarry in the province, and other rhyolite outcrops near the findspot... |
Flintknapping - General Discussion | 04/06/11 6:08 PM |
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Re: Awsome Rhyolite Points (reply) The local paper ran a good story on the couple who made the find today: http://www.lportepilot.ca...uple-makes-a-rare-find/1 |
Flintknapping - General Discussion | 04/06/11 4:32 PM |
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Re: Change Islands Cache - 32 Rhyolite Bifaces from Newfoundland and Labrador (reply) Knapper42 wrote:Tim do any of the blades show signs of being ground? they appear fairly smooth in the pictures. jackThere's no grinding visible on any of the blades. They're just very finely knapped on a somewhat coarse-grained... |
Archaeology/Anthropology Forum | 03/23/11 11:24 PM |
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Change Islands Cache - 32 Rhyolite Bifaces from Newfoundland and Labrador (topic) Cache of bifaces found near a Ferry Terminal on the Change Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador in September 2010. Many more photos and story here:http://elfshotgallery.blogspot.com/2011/03/change-islands-cache.html |
Archaeology/Anthropology Forum | 03/23/11 10:56 AM |
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Re: Palaeo knife?? help with ID please? (reply) I guess it looks a little like it has a knapped edge in Picture010.jpg, but I don't really see any evidence for the stone being worked from any of the other angles. There aren't any flake scars visible where they should be if that edge... |
Archaeology/Anthropology Forum | 03/11/11 8:52 PM |
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Re: quick question for the community (reply) I don't think its one tool - I think its two 1 metre photo scales laid out in a T-formation, similar to this one: http://thearchaeologicalb...chaeological+Photo+Scale I have a colleague who uses a photo scale like the one in the... |
Archaeology/Anthropology Forum | 03/11/11 11:24 AM |
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Re: Enigmatic organic artifacts from Northern Labrador (reply) I'm glad you liked the site - thanks for checking anyhow. Tim |
Archaeology/Anthropology Forum | 02/17/11 2:06 AM |
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Enigmatic organic artifacts from Northern Labrador (topic) Anything here that you can help identify?http://elfshotgallery.blogspot.com/2011/01/puzzling-organic-artifacts-from-nain.html |
Archaeology/Anthropology Forum | 02/11/11 6:09 PM |
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Re: Awesome article in Wired (reply) Very cool indeed! The backward facing view from the arrow cam is pretty cool. It'd be nice to see the forward view in slow motion. |
Archery - Primitive Bows | 02/04/11 9:39 PM |
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