1,000+ years ago a craftsman sat in virtually the same spot I am

And, using the ancient art of flintknapping he created tools and weapons. We can note this due to not only the amount of debitage (material produced during the process of lithic reduction), the amount of different types of core material, and because of the differing sizes of the flakes. The larger ones are from the beginning process of lithic reduction (the careful process of turning big rocks into little ones) and the very small one’s are chipped off during the finishing process. The different types of material would indicate a different group of people and or different time frame the pieces were being worked. What I found was a workstation. A place ancient craftsmen regularly went to practice their art. And, probably as noted by the differing types of material over a long period of time. As the pieces were flaked off they lay their undisturbed and untouched for over a thousand years, until I found them. They literally went from the craftsman’s fingers to mine.