Primitive North American Stone Weaponry - Mysteries

[cwpayton]

cant Remember who, what ph outfitter it was in africa, think it was up north maybe Zimbabwe, but they had some amazing dino tracks in riverbed bedrock ,big 3 toed tracks, was on u tube .

 

[Altitude sickness]

These are in Chewore South. There were larger ones also.

 

[fourfive8]

I’d say those are classic “ big bird” tracks deep and well defined! I have quite a lot of exposed sandstone here on my place and have never ID’d any definitive tracks but there are many casts and impressions of unrecognizable debris seen between the layers. Slight thread drift (maybe by a couple hundred million years) but interesting overlay of history nonetheless. Have found a few gastroliths mixed in with pre-Columbian artifacts here though. Hard to say if because of pure coincidence or if the Indians periodically gathered and transported them here because gizzard stones as selected by the “dinos” were usually made of useful, tool making material like cryptocrystalline quartz or chert??

Found this gastrolith, among a few others, here a couple of years ago

 

[fourfive8]

I think most true knapped Pre-Colombian arrow points are in the 1” to 1 1/4” range. Makes sense because recovered bows would be in proportion to a relatively small arrow and point.

First pic shows two “average” arrow points from here in SW Colorado and seem to be average representatives of most all I’ve found in Western US. The point on far right is tiny, by far the smallest I’ve ever found and is about 1/2”. It shows it was damaged then another notch added after the damage so it could again be hafted to a shaft,

The second photo shows an average SW US arrow point with an original forged English arrow point ca 1200-1300… Robin Hood era Size perspective makes sense because the English longbow was so much larger, of much greater draw poundage (100-150 lbs) than pre-Columbian bows of the Western Hemisphere.

 

[CoElkHunter]

I think most true knapped Pre-Colombian arrow points are in the 1” to 1 1/4” range. Makes sense because recovered bows would be in proportion to a relatively small arrow and point.

First pic shows two “average” arrow points from here in SW Colorado and seem to be average representatives of most all I’ve found in Western US. The point on far right is tiny, by far the smallest I’ve ever found and is about 1/2”. It shows it was damaged then another notch added after the damage so it could again be hafted to a shaft,

The second photo shows an average SW US arrow point with an original forged English arrow point ca 1200-1300… Robin Hood era Size perspective makes sense because the English longbow was so much larger, of much greater draw poundage (100-150 lbs) than pre-Columbian bows of the Western Hemisphere.

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Wow, what could they have killed with an arrowhead that small and primitive?