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Old 01-31-2012, 08:36 AM
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But I like the hand ax idea. That is thinking outside of the box
Yeah, I readily admit it, I'm apt to do that, lillyput.
Was simply the musing of an old fool.
Climbing back in the box, here's one of which I can speak.

An Acheulean hand-axe with 30,000 - 50,000 years of heavy patination and weathering. (from Southern France)
The flint peeks through in only 3 places.

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Old 01-31-2012, 09:00 AM
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It looks like a tab of flint that formed inside a chalk/limestone rock.



I think ya nailed it...Looks like a flint Nod. that has no true cortex...Interesting piece...
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