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Flintknapping - Cahokia Point Part 2

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Uploaded by on Oct 3, 2007

Continuation of pressure flaking a small arrowhead from a percussion flake.

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  • Humans have napped flint for a million years. Thank you for documenting how to do it as the art is slowly being lost. What was used as a pressure point where copper was not available? (I am sure it is a naive question). Thanks.

  • @doppstein The tip of an antler tine was generally used. Also bone was sometimes used...

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  • they had differnt perrsure flakers then jims using theirs was fand out like a axe head

  • thats very wierd cause i didnt post that comment. i knew that and that they built huge mounds and that they had human sacrafices. anyway thanks for taking the time to answer that, who ever posted it.

  • I looked it up for you, and while I'm not sure, it's probably a point from the Cahokia tribe, who lived in Illinios, near the modern city that bears their name.

  • again nice video. What areas were these points found in?

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