Although all men were more or less expert in flaking arrowheads and knives, the better grades of bows, arrows, and arrow points were made by the older, more expert specialists of the tribe.
The most difficult part of the business was now the formation of the fine point, as the chipping and flaking had to be conducted with the greatest nicety.
The cutting edge has been completely polished, but along the sides the facets made by flaking are plainly visible.
In brief, the coup de poing reaches its acme of development in late Acheulean times, both in the fineness of flaking and retouching and in its symmetry of form.
The distance ratio of this effect between Nagasaki and Hiroshima was about the same as for the flaking of polished granite.
Therefore the depth of roughening and ultimate flaking of the granite surface indicated the depth to which this temperature occurred and helped to determine the average ground temperatures in the instant following the explosion.
But the flaking of stone they laughed at, till I shot an elk through and through, the flaked stone standing out and beyond, the feathered shaft sunk in its vitals, the whole tribe applauding.
The Solutre culture brought in a new style, particularly thin blades with delicate surface flaking which seems to have reappeared in the late Neolithic.
The Aurignacian is a smaller flake industry, with many lumps more or less conical, and often with careful parallel flaking or fluting.
Let's move down a little bit from the top of the hill and skin this coyote, and we can look at the old doe every little while, and if she isn't bothered, likely before long she will go to her young ones.
On the sharp right-angled edge of several I found the indentations left by small flakes having been knocked off, evidently by blows, as a preparation for seating the flaking tool.
Mr. Seller’s valuable paper on the ancient workshops of Ohio and Pennsylvania also contains an account of his own experience relative to the flaking and chipping of flint implements.
This is used for making bread crumbs from crusts or stale bread; for flaking nuts and almonds, etc.
Spurrell,[132] in an interesting article, has suggested that the final flaking was effected after the blades had been ground to a smooth surface, in the same manner as the flakingon some of the most symmetrical Egyptian blades.
A splinter is then detached from the margin by means of the flaking hammer.
I have provisionally assigned the name of “flaking tool,” or fabricator.
The flaking is wonderfully delicate, and the edges, for the most part, minutely serrated.
The more convex face has been fluted or “ripple-marked” by cross-flaking from either side in the most skilful manner, the whole of the original polished surface being sometimes removed.
The flakingon the convex surface is very even and regular, and produces a slightly corrugated surface, with the low ridges following each other like ripple marks on sand.
That in the Reindeer or Cavern Period of Central France, though grinding was almost if not quite unused, except in finishing bone instruments, yet greater skill in flaking flint and in working up flakes into serviceable tools was exhibited.
Method of flaking stone by pressure; the splinter (c) is severed by outside pressure on the stone with a pointed bone (a).
Basal thinning appears, accomplished by broad flaking along the basal edge which is often followed by some secondary flaking.
The base is not as incurvate and the flaking is usually better controlled.
Careful secondary flaking in the form of short, often deep, flaking appears along the side edges.
The notches appear to have been formed by indirect percussion flaking with some retouch.
Resolved Flaking (L)--the method of striking flakes from a flint core by directing the blow inward.
It was a fine old house, with moulded ceilings, and some of the walls done in costly style, but the paint-work everywhere was faded or flaking off.
At last I got the escape ladder up and set to scraping the old paint from the north wall of the barn--it was flaking away there of itself.
It is slightly shaped by coarse flaking along the back and one end, and the edge is finely flaked into a curved outline rounding up at the ends.
Utkiavw[)i]n, is a thin profile figure of a polar bear, made by flaking from dark gray flint.
There are in the collection a number of rude images of whales, made by flaking from flint, jasper, and glass, but as these were ascertained without doubt to be amulets, they will be described under that head.
Though the handle is new, the flaking of the blade does not seem fresh, so that it is possibly a genuine old blade fitted with a new haft for the market.
The bark is of a bright cinnamon color and is handsomely braided and reticulated on thrifty trees, flaking off in thin, shining ribbons that are sometimes used by the Indians for tent matting.
This shelf, formed by the flaking off of a fold of granite, is about three inches wide, just wide enough for a safe rest for one's heels.
Only the cicada, as he rustles clumsily about with his paper wings against the flaking bark and yellowing leaves of an old apple tree, seems unmindful of the spell of silence that holds the place.
The large point composed of obsidian lacks refinement in flaking but shows little or no evidence of surface alteration (patination).
Phase I is characterized by large blades and large points, most of which are composed of a highly patinated basalt and have been manufactured through the percussion or rough pressure-flaking technique (pl.
Habitual thinking has perhaps contributed to the general idea that a lithic assemblage of core tools characterized by percussion flaking has come to represent both antiquity and a hunting- or skin-dressing economy.
Type IIB Like IIA, except that the worked edges display a marked degree of secondary flaking or resharpening, to the point where sections of the steepened sides are notably undercut.
Some forms display a marked perfection in flaking technique, and are comparable to illustrated specimens from the San Dieguito industry (M.
The blade, composed of a dark-brown chert, shows considerable pressure-flaking skill as evidenced by the serrations along both margins.
This chert specimen exhibits the best flaking technique of any large blades from the Tank Site.
These are produced from large cores of basalt or from a split cobble and exhibit flaking only on one face.
The third specimen is composed of a thin piece of laminated chert, leaf-shaped in form, and displays only slight marginal flaking in its original shaping.
These hard, adamantine surfaces over which quick colors are often necessarily placed may be classed as prolific sources of color flaking and chipping.
Such parts require a good measure of protection, otherwise flaking and chipping of the paint and varnish must naturally follow.
A ground so prepared is fortified to counteract the fading andflaking properties of such of the reds as are used as glaze colors.
Tall, steep hills rose from either side of the swift current, their sides covered with flaking molds of an exotic shade of rose-pink, mingled here and there with lavender and purple.
That one had been covered by the flaking mold that took the place of grass upon the rocky eminence.
Many of the beautiful daggers, genuine works of art, were finished by a uniform, fine flaking down to the close of the period.
These axes were rudely shaped by flaking and then ground and polished on large flat stones, which still show the grooves left by the implement as it was rubbed back and forth.
Before I could get the head of our boat turned inshore, it had crashed through several flaking sheets, and immediately after I realised that we were hopelessly in an ice maze from which there seemed no exit.
Our moccasins were being quickly reduced to shreds, and our clothing generally had become stiff with the frost and rent in great holes by contact with the brittle, flaking ice.
He looked with an ironic eye upon the glamorless lost illusion, with the paint flaking off, and hurriedly turning his back on it all, he went, metaphorically, out of doors.
He had risen at once, left the little heap of clumsily-made mannequins to lie foolish in their flaking paint, and sliding down the banisters, had gone out of doors in a great hurry.
Where flaking is done it is combed first with a coarse, then a fine steel comb, but where heart or growth-pieces occur, no comb should be used until wiped out, then comb with a fine comb very lightly in the same direction the grains may run.
A beautiful effect can be produced by combing over the flaking with a fine or coarse rubber comb, blending very lightly in the same direction the veins or comb take.
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