13 Biface Cache

[Ron Kelley]

Some days I like to just hammer out bifaces to be used later.
I may knap an effigy from one of the bifaces. lol
I finished one to a five inch blade.

[paohrocks]

You guys who knap have more patience than I do...nice work.

[willjo]

Some nice bifaces Ron

[Rio Del Norte]

Ron, do a lot of the knapping guys make biface pieces and then reduce them further to make a piece?

[Rio Del Norte]

Very nice knife...

[Ron Kelley]

Hey Chad, I would guess that all flintknappers do knap from spalls. The biggest advantage of knapping slabs is that we can get more pieces from a rock.

[Fat]

I think that is the progression of knapping clear back to 15kbp

[Hal Gorges]

Glad you show a bunch of bifaces for the folks who have never seen any...love the point.

[Kentucky point]

Finally my work season is slowing down. I'll have time to bust out a few in the coming weeks. I still can't believe you can make stuff out of that Edwards chert. That was the hardest stuff I've ever knapped!

[Ron Kelley]

Thanks Ethan, I now have 92 different rocks on my knapped lithics list. It's always interesting to knap a new one. There are a lot of different nodule cherts that come out of the limestone of the Edwards Plateau in Texas.

[redrocks]

Nice display of bifaces.ron!

[Jethro355]

That’s some pretty work, Ron.👍

[Lindenmeier-Man]

I think the NA people did the same Ron...

[Ron Kelley]

I'm sure you're right JJ. Caches of ancient bifaces have been found. If I had to walk some distance to a chert quarry this is how I would carry the material back to camp.

[Lindenmeier-Man]

Absolutely Ron !

[kayakaddict]

Thanks, enjoyed this! And that is a lot of work and tough on the body.

[beatup1354]

Well done Ron

[Benji]

Nice blade ron....thats awesome