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Stone Tools

  

 
An obsidian flake "X-Acto knife"
Photos by Rob Bicevskis
Note the following:

1. Slit in end of stick. This is where the obsidian flake will be placed.

2. The sleeve lying on the tarp. This is place onto the handle prior to inserting the obsidian flake. Then it is shoved up to tighten the end of the stick around the flake, holding it in place. (See next photo.)

 
The obsidian flake is now in place.

The sleeve is shoved up against the obsidian flake, thus tightening the hold on the flake. The inside diameter of the sleeve is just barely big enough to slide over the end of the stick.

 

  
Stone Tools made by Anthonio Akkermans
Photographs by Anthonio Akkermans
  

A selection of stone tools. 

To the right is a hammer, tied with rawhide to a rawhide-clad wooden handle.

At the bottom is a handtool with some chips knapped out of it to make a sharp edge. This could be utilised as a small cutter.

To the left is a stone knife - see picture below.

At top is a nice round hammer-stone.

And underneath it all is a stone base for working on, like a small anvil. 

 

  

A close-up of the stone knife. The stone (probably flint) knife blade is inserted into a split stick which is then bound up with cordage.

  

A knife made from obsidian, with a deer antler handle.

  

The knife blade from the above knife.

  

Another obsidian knife, again with a deer antler handle

 

 
A stone hatchet, inserted into a split stick. Note the cordage above the stone, to tighten the two halves of the split around the stone. And the cordage below the split, to help prevent the split from running the rest of the way down the handle.

Photo by Allan "Bow" Beauchamp