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                                                       4. " Thins" ( my word for them). Thin and flat.

                            

5. Very sharp points.

 

 

6 Notched flakes.

7. Burins.

                                                                        8. Blades.

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I suppose...

So far I had picked up what as on the surface and just a little under. Two months ago, I dug deeper, 8 to 10" down. To my amazement, I thought I had found, I suppose, a treasure trove of stone tools. Each rock felt in my hands like it had a purpose. The experience felt like as if I had been  locked in the storage room of an orchestra. I had looked at the instruments over and over for a long period of time and knew they were instruments without knowing what purpose they had nor what they could do.
I designed categories of shapes I saw over and over. Nothing scientific by any means. Just observation.
1. Triangles

2. Triangles with a flat base

3 Diamond shaped

A little bird

A bird in one's hand

It has the shape of a bird , specially the feathers in the back. The head is round and there is no beak, which is a bit of a puzzle. It stands on its belly.

It fits in my hand giving the wonderful feeling that whoever did this knew how a bird in one's hand would  weigh and feel.

Bas-relief

This is the first one and it is bigger than anything I have found so far.21/2 x 4 "

A couple of new faces

There is a notch done for the mouth, a common recurrence.

This next one has a fossil used for the mouth.

Then a line drawn deeply for it.

A small ball of clay was added for a nose. Very clownlike. It made me laugh!
Humor spanning generations...

Some comments any old how

-The rocks I have found are small and fit in my hand. They fit in my pocket and there is, most of the time, a rock of the day. I put it in my pocket, turn it during the day, pull it out and look at it several times. It's a companion and I am led to believe that these rocks were companions too.
- The images are many times not visible at first sight- they are on the side or hidden or very small.
- Some rocks stand by themselves. At first I thought they were meant to be on a ledge somewhere...I don't know now.
- A couple show a turned neck, a movement. There is nothing stiff about that design.

- Several faces on one little stone. The most I counted was 14. The thought came by that this could be a game, let's see who can carve the most images on a little stone or a game of guess what it is/ guess what's next.
- The light is most important. In one light, oh! this is amazing! in another, where is it?
- A tree at 6 am is different than a tree at 6 pm even though we know it is the same tree. Maybe in the same way, a rock was seen as different or having a life of its own because of the different angles of light throughout the day.    
- Sometimes, a color, a texture, a certain marking on the rock is used in the image. Not always.
- For the longest time, I struggled with the idea of such artwork being done with rough tools. I am reconciled with the idea of very small tools, little rocks which have a sharp point. At least this is the possiblity of the moment.