I hate notching!
Posted on : 09-10-2009 | By : John | In : Stone Tools
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Hemp Hill (top) & Corner Notch
There is nothing worse than putting a lot of time and energy into a point only to mess things up at the very end. I was putting in the last notch when my cone flake took out the ear. I was hoping to make something resembling a Hemp Hill. The finished product is still acceptable and functional but the lack of symmetry obviously reduces some of the aesthetic qualities. The second projectile is a simple corner-notched point. And sticking with the “I hate notching” theme, I had to punch in one of the notches with indirect percussion because I had a hard time driving through the limestone inclusions using pressure alone. I don’t usually like to use indirect, but in this case it seemed to work out OK.
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