Updated:
3 June 2007
Stone Tools Tour
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Tools Tour
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The
curious students compare stone tools from around the
world with Curator Dennis Stanford.
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Fascinated,
Rebecca Fischer inspects one of man's earliest technological
achievements - a hand ax.
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Elis
Silva and Morgan Little compare Solutrian, Pre-Clovis
and Clovis points.
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Comparisons
between the Solutrean and Clovis points.
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Collection
is from the famed Blackwater Draw site in New Mexico.
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Elis
Silva reviews the BlackWater Draw Collection.
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The
Drake Cache, a purposefully buried bundle of Clovis
points found in Colorado in the 1970's, is one of
the highlights of the Stone Tools Collection. The
exquisite craftsmanship of the artisan, special material
(including chert from Texas), and intentional burial,
make the Drake Cache as much of a treasure today as
it would have been 14,000 years ago. What do you think
was the purpose of the burial? Curator Dennis Stanford
offered several theories, including storage of raw
material for later use and reverence for prey.
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Were
these beautiful projectile points created with such
care out of respect for hunted animals?
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Rainbows
of colors are seen in this Drake Cache Clovis Point.
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A
Drake Cache Clovis Point.
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Curator
Dennis Stanford shows Emma Harrower a bone shaft-wrench
from the Native American burial toolkit of a turtle
shaman. This 11,000 year old wrench was used to keep
wooden throwing spear shafts straight, a crucial factor
in accuracy. The bi-facial Clovis Points were fluted
on both sides to insert into the wooden spear shafts.
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Dennis
Stanford explains how the spear points were used for
killing mammoths and other large mega fauna.
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Ben
Linzmeier holds a Clovis Point from a mammoth site.
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Cecily
Marroquin, Santiago Herrera, and Emma Harrower watch
with amusement as curator Dennis Stanford demonstrates
how a broken fragment of stone found by a volutneer's
grandmother is actually an important artifact almost
identical to a known Solutrian specimen.
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Native
Americans traveled far distances to obtain special
raw materials, including quartz, to create stone tools.
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The
Simon Cache, from Idaho, is remarkable for it's exquisite
workmanship. The points were probably too fragile
for any functional use. The rare stone and red ochre
found on some pieces, perhaps representing blood,
indicate that this horde may have had a spiritual
or ceremonial purpose.
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This
collection of stone tools was found not far from D.C.
in Jefferson Island, Maryland.
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Casts
of stone tools are extremely useful to archaeologists
comparing types.
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The
Paleolithic projectile points shown here were used
to kill mammoths like the specimen shown here from
Colorado.
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Curator
Dennis Stanford explains how the tool marks on this
Mammoth jaw got there!
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Paleolithic
Mammoth jaw
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Elis
Silva, Laura Florez and Addison Kemp.
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Dennis
Stanford and Miles Collins
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Photo
captions by Morgan Little
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