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<blockquote data-quote="Physiksgeek" data-source="post: 1175398" data-attributes="member: 2854"><p>Looks like I am out numbered on whether flint was "heat treated" prior to being worked by ancient man.......but there is strength in numbers...lol! SOoooo.....my hope is that my personal testimony to a number greater than three, albeit an unknown number of heat treated points I have personally found, fifteen years worth of Central States Archeological Journals as well as the number of links below speaking of heat treated points....will persuade those that unequivocally say it did not take place...to being open to the evidence and the possibility that in fact it did. A quick Google search using 'heat treated Indian artifacts' keywords revealed the following. Some are from journals, some are auctions and some are articles. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.primitiveways.com/knapping3.html" target="_blank">http://www.primitiveways.com/knapping3.html</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.texasarrowheads.com/featured-artifacts/alternate-preforms/" target="_blank">http://www.texasarrowheads.com/featured ... -preforms/</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.webdyer.com/artifacts_fossils/points07.htm" target="_blank">http://www.webdyer.com/artifacts_fossils/points07.htm</a> - Picture F05 is heat treated coral and Picture F016 is thought to be heat treated </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ancientindianartifacts.com/product.php?productid=16377&cat=252&page=9&js=n" target="_blank">https://www.ancientindianartifacts.com/ ... age=9&js=n</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://csasi.org/2004_october_journal/2004_selected_pictures_from_the_october_journal.htm" target="_blank">http://csasi.org/2004_october_journal/2 ... ournal.htm</a> - The points second from the bottom made from Horse Creek Chert are heat treated.</p><p></p><p>I do not think that any one disputes the fact that a piece of flint left in a fire will explode.....but I would ask why would someone do that? It would destroy a perfectly good piece of flint and maybe even put an eye out. I know for a fact that it will burn a hole in a tent....lol! </p><p></p><p>Now by no means do I take everything written in a book or on the internet as an indisputable fact....but it does become harder for me to refute 'X' when the the preponderance of evidence runs contrary to it. So, because of that and the fact that an argument that begins in the "general" and tries to end in the "specific" is by its very nature flawed, I would be interested in some specific instances where it is felt this "heat treating" of flint by ancient man did not happen......I Googled it and could not find any myself???</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Physiksgeek, post: 1175398, member: 2854"] Looks like I am out numbered on whether flint was "heat treated" prior to being worked by ancient man.......but there is strength in numbers...lol! SOoooo.....my hope is that my personal testimony to a number greater than three, albeit an unknown number of heat treated points I have personally found, fifteen years worth of Central States Archeological Journals as well as the number of links below speaking of heat treated points....will persuade those that unequivocally say it did not take place...to being open to the evidence and the possibility that in fact it did. A quick Google search using 'heat treated Indian artifacts' keywords revealed the following. Some are from journals, some are auctions and some are articles. [url=http://www.primitiveways.com/knapping3.html]http://www.primitiveways.com/knapping3.html[/url] [url=http://www.texasarrowheads.com/featured-artifacts/alternate-preforms/]http://www.texasarrowheads.com/featured ... -preforms/[/url] [url=http://www.webdyer.com/artifacts_fossils/points07.htm]http://www.webdyer.com/artifacts_fossils/points07.htm[/url] - Picture F05 is heat treated coral and Picture F016 is thought to be heat treated [url=https://www.ancientindianartifacts.com/product.php?productid=16377&cat=252&page=9&js=n]https://www.ancientindianartifacts.com/ ... age=9&js=n[/url] [url=http://csasi.org/2004_october_journal/2004_selected_pictures_from_the_october_journal.htm]http://csasi.org/2004_october_journal/2 ... ournal.htm[/url] - The points second from the bottom made from Horse Creek Chert are heat treated. I do not think that any one disputes the fact that a piece of flint left in a fire will explode.....but I would ask why would someone do that? It would destroy a perfectly good piece of flint and maybe even put an eye out. I know for a fact that it will burn a hole in a tent....lol! Now by no means do I take everything written in a book or on the internet as an indisputable fact....but it does become harder for me to refute 'X' when the the preponderance of evidence runs contrary to it. So, because of that and the fact that an argument that begins in the "general" and tries to end in the "specific" is by its very nature flawed, I would be interested in some specific instances where it is felt this "heat treating" of flint by ancient man did not happen......I Googled it and could not find any myself??? [/QUOTE]
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