Cushing's tine Clovis flaking made with deer tine, for Arrowheadology, Paleoplanet

Описание: www.antlerdrift.blogspot.com I created this late stage coast to coast flake, in raw stone, with a deer tine, according to Native American flintknapping data that was still remotely extant, during the 19th century. The flaking process covers a range of flaking, from regular flaking, to coast to coast flaking, to outrepasse overshot flaking, to fluting.

1895 - “In finally forming arrow-points from these trimmed blanks, the smallest of them only were chosen. The first care in fashioning one of these was to remove protuberant points from its edge and sides and to thin it down by means of a "pitching tool" of buck-horn. This was effected in several ways, usually by clamping it in a folded pad of buckskin under the knee against a hammerstone or notched wooden block, so that the projecting edge rested over the margin or else over the pit of the stone, or notch if a block or log were used, and with one hand holding the point of the pitching-tool very lightly and slantingly and at a wide angle, against or just over the points to be chipped, sharply tapping the tool with a maul or with a knapping hammer. Thus the blade was quickly thinned down and made almost even edged." (The Arrow, The American Anthropologist, Frank Cushing)