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To: C19fan; SunkenCiv
Paleolithics Ping!

As a lithic technologist, I'll agree that all the pictured artifacts are, indeed, artifacts -- and not "accidental geofacts".

All of them are "faceted", from multiple, purposeful flake removals, and many removals show clear evidence of a "hard hammer" (aka "hammerstone") strike.

A further, convincing point is that the materials are granular, tough materials that will only produce a thin, sharp flake when submitted to well-directed, high velocity, shockwave-initiating percussive strikes. Such precise impacts are exceedingly rare in nature -- and multiple such strikes on a single small stone are so improbable as to be essentially non-existent in nature.

And, several of them even exhibit prepared "striking platforms" for flake removals!

Whoever made them may have been "primitive" -- but, they definitely exhibited technical knowledge and skill.

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(To anyone who thinks otherwise -- I challenge you to pick up some rocks and duplicate these "crude" artifacts...) '-)

19 posted on 02/01/2018 11:39:57 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias | "Islamists": Satan's assassins | "Moderate Muslims": Useful idiots.)
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To: TXnMA; blam; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks TXnMA.

20 posted on 02/01/2018 11:52:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv ([singing] rip rap I was takin' a nap... [/singing])
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