Above: Segment of long bone, ca 36,000
YBP. It is beveled and ground at each end, with connecting cut marks between the
ends.
Below: Similar artifact from Awatovi Pueblo, found and described as a pendant
by S. J. Olsen and R. P. Wheeler, 1978, Bones from Awatovi, N. E.
Arizona #11, vol. 70(1,2), 62,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology (Harvard).
13,000 YBP
2. Probable Bone Tool Zone C2
Above: Fragment of cortical shaft
bone, ca 13,000 YBP. Bar = 1 cm. There is a snap break (right) and 3 V-shaped
grooves showing repetitive cut marks. This is a probable attempt at edge straightening
to create a cutting toot. Bar = 1 cm.
Below: A finished awl-knife, front and back, from Guitarrero Cave, Peru,
found by T. F. Lynch, Early Man in the Andes, 1480, Academic Press,
London, 236.
Side, Sem (27.6x) of above, note V-shaped intersecting grooves with shouldering. Bar = 1 mm. Photo courtesy of E. Johnson and P. Shipman. |
