Heavy Slow Loader

 

The very first intentional detachment made with the wooden club.

As you can imagine, with such a small core, and trying to use an indirect support scenario, I had to fly through the swing at nearly the speed of light, in order to make the detachment without knocking the little core out of my hand. But, thank God for wood, even with a two pound weight, it will not shatter the stone. What a relief. Also, this is one of the things which makes flaking go so fast - it is fast. Also, if you do this for two days straight, your arm will probably be near to falling off.

Very first set of detachments with wooden club

One of first detachments with wooden club

One of first flakes detached with wooden club

Small core

 

small untrimmed core

 

small core

 

Small wood club core ready to be further reduced by hammerstone

 

small core

 

Blade from side

 

Blade from back

 

Blade from front

 

 

 

 

 

Wooden club cortex removal

 

Wooden club cortex removal

 

Beautiful unknown Yucatan chert

 

 

Thick lipped screw up flake

 

Interesting screw up flake