Ceremonial?
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I'm dying to know what an expert would say about the hook shaped one. Amazing finds
tree_ghost
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Never seen one like that…!!!
KTS
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I'm certainly no expert but I have seen fish hooks made of flint before. Most of the fish hooks they used were made of bone.
Its either my eyesight or every one of those pieces appear to have some kind of a clear shellac or sealer of some kind.
If so, then it would be difficult to tell for sure.
Nice looking pieces without knowing for sure.
If so, then it would be difficult to tell for sure.
Nice looking pieces without knowing for sure.
They do have something on them, not sure what.
I do know that one factor some of the pro's use is patina, and that with other factors like flaking patterns predominate for a specific type.
I wish I could help more. They look really nice, and knowing they were your great grandfathers makes them nicer yet.
Smo
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Could the large one with the notches have been used too smooth arrow shafts?
338lapuaman
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You are correct Smo. The one above it is a flint fishhook which were not common as the bone fishhooks which were made from a bone in a deer foot
Could have been but I have a couple of Spokeshaves and they're nothing like that. Why would they make the points on each end? We'll never know. Maybe it was the Easton arrow straightener and not the gold tipCould the large one with the notches have been used too smooth arrow shafts?
Very cool!
Very curious about the one in the middle as well. Looks like some kind of paleo leathermen tool. Never seen anything like it.
Looks like they were chipping arrow heads out of a large stone and leaving them on there till the others were shaped out , when finished they would separate, they would make a drill if making a leatherman tool imo. That gave them a little more stone to hold onto.
