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Originally Posted by Rain Man
You can add good cheers, such as,
Flint rock, spear, atltatl
Your kicker's getting rattled!
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Flint was used to start fire Obsidian was used to make fine sharp arrows. Flint was for chipping Obsidian hence flintknapping.
Native Americans foraged and hunted most days and at night flintknapping by fire in the evening. An expert once estimated for every point he knapped successfully 20 broke or didn't pass muster and was discarded. Over thousand upon thousand years erosion washed into streams or upturned by the plow. That is why so many are found but you never know whether it killed a fat bear prospector or was a failure tossed away like a crusty booger.