progress is being made. ridge development is good and even. i have a half dozen 4.5" blanks ready to flute. waiting on some more info about the climate of 11,500bp. this is what i recieved from an archeologist .
"RE the Cumberland point. Flint and other geologists place CT as all ice-free by 11,500 BC, with the following animals supported by the vegetation for the next 2000 years: mastodon, mammoth, horse, giant beaver, giant ground sloth, moose‑elk, caribou, musk ox, and elk. The Ivory Pond mastodon in the Housatonic drainage (I think western MA) has two radiocarbon dates - one from bone and one from white spruce cones found with the animal— 9490 B.C. ±655 years and 9680 B.C. ±470 years, respectively. By 8200 BC the Templeton site in Washington, CT had oak charcoal, indicating a mixed deciduous-coniferous forest, which likely supported deer. Caribou bones have been found in Paleo contexts in MA (probably wood caribou). Elk bones were found in Woodruff Cave overlooking Lake Waramaug, indicating Paleo peoples hunted elk in CT as well."
im basing everything im doing on the cumberland-barnes lithics. rather than the tennessee/kentucky cumberland. also every archeologist ive spoke with agrees with jesse that indirect pressure (ie. a jig) was used to flute these.
