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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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i can manipulate stone and use stone tools, i consider it bushcraft and a means to understand unwritten history rather than a "heritage skill"
knife/scraper/drill/arrow teeth etc are easy, a clovis point or 2 edge broadhead with barbs is a bit beyond my basic practical skills
a few days would probably be a decent schooling to practice the fancy stuff enough to make reasonable ones
in a flinty area, if you look you will probably have a chance to notice discarded cores and flakes, often in a place with a view, and in the space where they would fall from a seated knapper's work
industry was an early human development
ditto near hunting camps etc, where the group knapper replaced arrow heads, blades etc using raw lumps or reworking used tools
ferrari level items were traded over vast distances (gifting?)currency?), useful sharp thing tended to be local or diy
you upset the tribe by covering the village in sharp chippings and cuts, so locating a knappers yard a bit away from people and critters homes makes lots of sense
a small lump of flint is a lithic swiss army knife, even in almost unskilled paws |
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