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| Making the Dalton Point with Chris Estes By: Crawdaddy Tim Mayeux |
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| Marking the spot for the first flake |
| The next three |
| Flakes removed |
| The next ridge is outllined |
| Flake removed, reducing mass in center |
| Cracks in biface |
| Oops, those cracks sometimes come back to haunt you. Now ya got two! |
| The larger of the two pieces is refined more by random thinning flakes |
| Still a littled humped in the middle. Centerline needs to be moved to this face |
| No more turtle! |
| Preform ready for pressure flaking |
| Shearing the edge to prepare the platform |
| Preform ready for basal thinning flake |
| Basal flake taken similar to percussion fluting. Very crucial for Dalton points |
| More pressure flaking and shaping give the point the "Dalton" look, with a nice thin base and good median ridge |
| The finished point |
| The "Iron Catfish", Chris Estes |
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