After producing 89 nice Folsom points with an Aztec pressure technique in 2013, I am now convinced there is a direct/indirect percussion method for producing Folsom. The more we know, the less certain we become. While the pressure method is highly successful, the percussion method, If held in a split branch hold, works well and replicates the "wild" compression rings on other artifacts, rather than the smooth compression on pressure blade Folsom points. Many nice preforms are simply too thin to flute, thus Midland. Because it is the proper tools that spell success or failure, as well as skill, I have been able to have total novices, with no flintknapping experience, once shown how, successfully flute a preform provided to them. It is the biface, not the flute, that requires skill. Nice presentation, especially the Folsom-Clovis relationship.
After producing 89 nice Folsom points with an Aztec pressure technique in 2013, I am now convinced there is a direct/indirect percussion method for producing Folsom. The more we know, the less certain we become. While the pressure method is highly successful, the percussion method, If held in a split branch hold, works well and replicates the "wild" compression rings on other artifacts, rather than the smooth compression on pressure blade Folsom points. Many nice preforms are simply too thin to flute, thus Midland. Because it is the proper tools that spell success or failure, as well as skill, I have been able to have total novices, with no flintknapping experience, once shown how, successfully flute a preform provided to them. It is the biface, not the flute, that requires skill. Nice presentation, especially the Folsom-Clovis relationship.
This is awesome I could listen all day .
No wonder I can't find any!! They have legs. But a point with a happy face is pleasant to see
midland point was already thin enough, so it didn't need the flute
I'm from Hawaii and just see a surfboard runnung. Good read though.
I found one in VIRGINIA..NO POINT JUST TAPPERED LIKE A CLAM ALL THE WAY AROUND.. I AM CORNFUSED