Very cool!! I’ve wanted to try my hand at ground stone tools. I haven’t knapped in well over a year after I lost my touch. Might be time to get back into it. The only complaint I have about your videos is that I wish you could make more.
Great video. Little tip from experience here, but if you go to your local creek and get sand to use as a grit while grinding it makes the whole process go twice as fast even if your grinding on sandstone. I found that out and will always do it that way from now on. When ready to polish you can just wash the sand off your sanding block or get a smooth stone and polish the edge without sand which i have found to work the best.👍🏻
I’ve been doing a series on Kentucky points/archaeology, but I assume you mean an entire set of tools for a particular time/archaeological culture? That would be cool
@@pathwaysofthepast Yeahi love you qork on Kentucky points but yeah i meant more along the lines of the toolset used be the southeastern Dalton cultures
I am guessing that there were some kind of rotary systems that turned large flat stones, and I believe these stones were made with a slightly more sophisticated technology... but I can't prove it. I could only assume that someone clever enough to Knap stones, would also realize the basic physics of a makeshift flywheel. There have been large stone wheels found at some sites and some claim that they were animal driven grain grinding stones. I would just like to think that there is a more timely method! Great show man!
I think there would be more evidence of large rotary stones used to grind stone axes if that were the case. Worldwide, we see more evidence lateral grinding, evidenced by large stones with grooves/trenches from grinding axes. There’s a compelling argument that in some places, people used “sledges” to grind their axes, basically to weigh the axe heavily against the grinding surface and provide handles. Let me see if I can find a link to show you.
It’s amazing how effective that really is! Id love to see a comparison to a knapped guilford axe.
Great job as always!
Outstanding!
Thank you for explaining and showing the techniques. I always enjoy your videos.
Beautiful adze. The stone blade you made is just like the ones I used to find along the Scioto River in Ohio. Thank for showing start to finish!
Very cool!! I’ve wanted to try my hand at ground stone tools. I haven’t knapped in well over a year after I lost my touch. Might be time to get back into it. The only complaint I have about your videos is that I wish you could make more.
love it! finally some different styles of tools!
Excellent video and great information
Great video. Little tip from experience here, but if you go to your local creek and get sand to use as a grit while grinding it makes the whole process go twice as fast even if your grinding on sandstone. I found that out and will always do it that way from now on.
When ready to polish you can just wash the sand off your sanding block or get a smooth stone and polish the edge without sand which i have found to work the best.👍🏻
I used crushed sandstone to produce sand combined with flint dust for grinding this adze blade.
@@pathwaysofthepast I bet that works even better
Nice!!!
very similar to the square axes from neolithic europe , nice work !
can you talk about side scrapers and their hafting?
can you do a couple videos/series on eastern woodlands style toolkits?
I’ve been doing a series on Kentucky points/archaeology, but I assume you mean an entire set of tools for a particular time/archaeological culture? That would be cool
@@pathwaysofthepast Yeahi love you qork on Kentucky points but yeah i meant more along the lines of the toolset used be the southeastern Dalton cultures
I am guessing that there were some kind of rotary systems that turned large flat stones, and I believe these stones were made with a slightly more sophisticated technology... but I can't prove it. I could only assume that someone clever enough to Knap stones, would also realize the basic physics of a makeshift flywheel. There have been large stone wheels found at some sites and some claim that they were animal driven grain grinding stones. I would just like to think that there is a more timely method! Great show man!
I think there would be more evidence of large rotary stones used to grind stone axes if that were the case. Worldwide, we see more evidence lateral grinding, evidenced by large stones with grooves/trenches from grinding axes. There’s a compelling argument that in some places, people used “sledges” to grind their axes, basically to weigh the axe heavily against the grinding surface and provide handles. Let me see if I can find a link to show you.
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Very nicely done. How many hours do you think it took to grind the adze?