Native fork or eating utencil.

[Mattern]

So this is up for discussion. I have thought that the Native needed something to eat with. They made spoons from different types of materials. I posted a St Albans yesterday that I called an Orent. I am corrected. Here is another, the base is damaged. I received a lot of great responses,, thanks. So back to topic. If I want to eat a piece on meat cooking on the fire, How will I do that. Utilizing a Sharp blade and a handled knife or point it would be obvious. Take a point like the one posted and simply attach a handle. The serrations should help hold the food very securely.


Stick the fork into the meat and slice off a piece of meat and eat! What does everyone think? Kim

[Ron Kelley]

Hey Kim, I eat with a knife some times: It's the cowboy way. :-)

[UpNorth]

Works for me.
just don’t chip a tooth.
no dentist in there neighborhood....✌️

[Kentucky point]

The only problem I see is if you hold flint over a fire to long,

A. You'll burn the stick or sinew holding the point.

B. Flint will pop if held over a flame too long.


As for regular eating, perhaps maybe. I would think that the settlers might have made mention over a peculiar detail as that when they first arrived, but then again, history is so full of mysteries cause by folks who don't write anything down!

[Ron Kelley]

Cook it on a stick and eat it with a knife.

[Hoss]

cook on a flat rock and eat with your hand . There are also many wood artifacts that have been lost to history in much of North America as the soils are so acidic would just does not hold up.

[SGT.Digger]

Killer dart

[tomf]

Come on now.

[Mattern]

The only problem I see is if you hold flint over a fire to long,

A. You'll burn the stick or sinew holding the point.

B. Flint will pop if held over a flame too long.


As for regular eating, perhaps maybe. I would think that the settlers might have made mention over a peculiar detail as that when they first arrived, but then again, history is so full of mysteries cause by folks who don't write anything down!

Well Kt. I would think that they would figured out how to do this without burning fingers and tools. It's just my hypothesis. I some times think outside the box, trying to figure out what all these tools might have been used for. Thanks for your incite. Kim

[tomf]

I've seen a bunch of spoons; wooden, shell and bone, but never a fork. Though if something needed spearing your point would do the job.

[utilized flake]

Definitely a steak knife!

[Havenhunter]

I suspect a lot of fingers were involved as opposed to special utensils.

[Mattern]

We really don't have to make our tools. You see when we need a tool we just go to the tool box or the kitchen drawer and pull out what we need, and don't think anything about it. They needed a tool they had to make them. So they had to think about it and of course experiment with it until it worked. I like to think about the tools and figure different ways to use them. We have no idea how Paleo or Archaic people used these things. We just assume their uses. My proposal is not out of line. It's what makes collecting more personal, if we can think outside the Books. Kim

[Hal Gorges]

Good thought Kim...I would think if that was a widespread method, we would find more points ( broken or not ) with evidence of fire or heat damage, one way to find out, lemme know which way the mop flops,,Lol...P.S.I’m not sure what the preferred method was, I’ll be thinkin about that one for a couple of days.

[Mattern]

I agree Hal you would think that these things would turn up in firepits often. Maybe I just think and analyze too much. But it will always be my nature. Thought provoking! I'm just a wild and crazy guy.

[tomf]

Just think if forks were needed there would be a class of fork type artifacts. Knives (which almost any point might be) were certainly eating utensils and could be used as a cutter or a prong. So forks, as we know them, were not conceptualized, it seems.

We see barbs and serrations that work to hold in their target. Fish hooks too.

Turns out you are right on this, Kim.

[gregszybala]

Ever cook a hot dog on a green sapling twig? Just throwing this out there as well

[south fork]

Or smoke meat or fish .