One of the rocks in my Grand Dads rock garden, among the broken axe heads and hammer stones, was a piece he called the moccasin stone. He always told us he thought the ancient ones used this rock as a sort of shoe form when they sewed moccasins. It actually does appear to have some pecking marks on some places.
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I keep six honest serving-men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.
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With people having different size feet, and people growing from youngster to adult, if moccasin lasts were a valid class of artifact, we should expect it to be one of the most common form of stone artifact found at virtually every village site. But we don’t. And it’s because they are not an artifact type, or required in the creation of footwear.Rhode Island
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Here's a decent collection of Great Basin artifacts. Mostly correctly identified, as far as I can tell, except for the proverbial 'moccasin last'. It's in one of those small county museums that Painskill's linked thread mentions. It's 'just a rock' as far as I can see.
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On the other hand, examples that show actual shaping by human hand (do those exist?) would warrant interpretation. Moccasin lasts seems a ridiculous call, for the reasons stated by previous posters. A clearly modelled human would probably belong in the effigy class.
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