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    New studies show that shark meat may have constituted half of their diet and that the beasts' teeth were used as arrow tips and razor blades
    Professor Shellman
    Tampa Bay

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    Neat stuff! I've always figured some of the cool drilled teeth from Florida might have had a functional use vs being beads.
    Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida

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    • #3
      Fascinating, Key Marco all over again, Yupp, fascinating, Thanks a bunch Tom...I actually took a walk up the mound this morning, no luck, but I’m gonna keep my eyes peeled, cuzz I want a two hole one, maybe even a three hole specimen,Lol...Never gonna happen...
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      Floridaboy.

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      • Jethro355
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        Don’t say never!

    • #4
      Thanks Tom, cool stuff. I like the shark toofies.
      Wandering wherever I can, mostly in Eastern Arkansas, always looking down.

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      • Hal Gorges
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        That’s a word I like.

    • #5
      Interesting article, thanks for taking the time to post it.

      Though I am a little skeptical on extrapolating tool type usage based on microwear patterns on shark teeth. The fossil shark teeth that I've looked at show a lot of "in life" wear scratches, these types of scratches might be hard to differentiate from implied tool use scratches.
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      (Cheated and just used hotmeld glue, too hard to drill)

      Drilling to lash the teeth (in addition to pitch gluing) for butchering tool or weapons would make good sense, if teeth outnumber good lithic sources.

      Looks like the Moche fished for sharks on the opposite side of the continent also.
      Coastal Plain of Maryland

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      • Jethro355
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        That thing could do some serious damage!
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