Description
The points are bifacially worked and have a symmetrical, leaf-like shape with a concave base and wide, shallow grooves running almost the entire length of the point. The edges are finely worked. The characteristic groove, known as fluting, may have served to aid hafting to a wooden spear shaft or dart or perhaps to improve penetration of the target. The fluting may also have been a stylistic element or have had some symbolic purpose. The fluting required great technical ability to effect, and it took archaeologists many years of experimentation to replicate it.
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