Friday, January 06, 2023

Edge use exam of glass "arrowhead"

I think the edge use is definitive. The only other part of the edge with these small facets is the inside of the bend on the "stem".

Still hard to believe.

5 comments :

Anonymous said...

The striations? on the glass look just like those of the obvious glass arrowhead from the forums post as well

pwax said...

Not the striations which are features of percussive flakes - I mean the little facets right along the sharpest part of the edge. Those are signs of use.

Anonymous said...

I understood what you were getting at just adding an observation.

pwax said...

Thanks.

Curtiss Hoffman said...

Alfred Kroeber reported that Ishi, the Yahi whom he made into a museum exhibit, raided miners' camps in the early 20th century for glass which he flaked into arrowheads.