Venezuela Uniface Blade
Just wanted to share some pictures of this unifacial blade, kinda unusual. It was sent to me by an archeologist friend from Venezuela for study purposes. I will try replicating it soon. Over 9" long...
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Luke, I'm having trouble understanding how a unifacial knife can be sharper than a bifacial knife. Could you explain? Do you think its function is utilitarian? I think so. Either the product or the...
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Very Cool PaleomanJIm. Thank you for showing it to us. Great piece with unanswered questions. My best guess (based on very limited experience) to the why part is that maybe the knapper was needing a...
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Is there any indication the piece was actually used as a tool? Has an expert put that edge under a microscope? If no signs of use, my guesses:1) It is a preform. The knapper went after the domed...
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Jim! good to see you back around. Any chance of new videos on your channel?
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Goose wrote..... "Disadvantages: 1) Unifacial resharpening will often leave the edges non-linear due to the curvature of the initial flake/blade/spall. Is this really a disadvantage though or more of...
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Dennis, if a uniface tool is the designer's intent then he must not have had to worry about radial forces if what you say is true. Otherwise the flintknapper would come up with a different design to...
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well, i'm very late to this party, but i'll say three things. first, i'm thrilled and appreciative for both paleoknapperjim posting and the hugely interesting specimen he posted. second, i never...
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freeze cracked wrote:well, i'm very late to this party, but i'll say three things. first, i'm thrilled and appreciative for both paleoknapperjim posting and the hugely interesting specimen he posted....
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Goose wrote, "Otherwise the flintknapper would come up with a different design to meet the requirement. Would you agree?" Not necessarily. If that were true flintknapped works would have reached their...
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I can add little to this discussion other than to point out that rather than viewing this as a unificial tool, perhaps we should think more of it as a single bevel tool. But then, for what? Not that...
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Thanks for all the great reply's folks, you brought up things I had not considered. The blade shows no signs of grinding but may have been resharpened along the upper right edge to about the mid...
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Jim, I would encourage you to attempt to replicate the tool and then use it in the whittling fashion you describe. I don't know if you have tried whittling wood with stone tools before but it is quite...
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Thanks Goose. Yes, I have shaped wood with stone tools on many occasions and for me the stone tools worked fairly well. I demonstrated a bit of wood shaping using a spall on one of my Youtube...
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At first glace of the first pic I thought "Cool! A Solutrean blade!"...but the flaking is wrong....and it's a uniface....But the shape is a dead ringer for a an Old World Solutrean. Anyone else see...
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Could you explain what you mean, "...the flaking is wrong...for a Solutrean blade..."?
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Hi Jim good to see u posting again!!! Pictures don't always tell the whole story and my thoughts are perhaps the original maker made this tool to fit his hand, being that the one face was relatively...
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A Solutrean blade would exhibit large flat overshot flake scars over much of the blade. Very similar to "Clovis" technology, which leads some to believe there might have been a Solutrean-Clovis...
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Venomous 76, not sure if you saw an excerpt from an earlier post in this thread by Jim, but he already mentioned there was no grinding. I also mention something about this in an earlier post: "I must...
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