Some of the tools had preserved residues of pine. I had been wondering why, and then the idea of hafting hit me again. I bet they were using pine resin to secure hafting set ups. So we've got possible evidence of gut haft wrap, pine resin, adn I would imagine they used sinew for some things.
I'm writing the synthesis section now and it helps to gab about it. My chronological interpretations are going to be challenged by the conservative group. Classic Kirk projectile points of the eastern US in the Early Archaic period (8,000-6,800 BC) are supposed to have serrations on the edges. However, my buddy and here note that in nearly 30 years of looking at sites and artifacts in out particular subregion, we have NEVER seen a serrated specimen. Often, they are on fine quality stone and have been kept used, reused, resharpened, reworked.
This site saw mostly hide scraping activities, and they seen to have used old worn out points and scrapers. Yoiu wouldn't want a serrated edge for scraping. All the reworking alters the shape of the point, or instances making the once corner notches look like side notches or even stemmed.
We found that a lot of things called bifaces, that are often though of as preforms for points, were hafted and used as scraping tools too. Tied on with rat gut.
Thank you for letting me ramble.
