Enter the cleaver... a rare instrument

Certainly and clearly not as common as the handaxe but just as beautiful a stone instrument. handaxes are usually made from river cobbles or greatly sized flint 1 small round mass of anything.

meat knife on the other hand, at least in my part, are made from a single very greatly sized flake.

River cobbles are used because these have already been crushed by hard blow and damaged many times and from all different angles when journeying downriver In that process only the strongest most having the necessary qualities great stones put up with the whipping and are therefore most right for way making.

I meat knife is so named for its one only, wide, almost Strait edge in comparison to the thing having egg-like forms or egg form of the handaxe

meat knife are formed in such a way that they could have been hafted to a stick and used like a tree cutting tool. In this Case however, these were likely used just like a handaxe for butchery and so on. The form is simply the outcome of the make process.

These are not made from a rounded road stone but from the going out up edge of a bit of material of outcropping great stone.

The edge of the outcrop 1 is given a very hard blow to take away a very greatly sized flake of stone that is then made edges straight to form the meat knife.

These ones had been lying face down for so long that the upper surface of both show a significant amount of weathering.

The nearby bits broken out and damage to these examples is needing payment to the fact that this was got back from a mass, number of things together of great stones that were taken away from a plowed farming field. The deep brown-red color color of the great stone is needing payment to the high iron What is in. This is iron that was precipitated 1 and mixed with sand in an amount of increase 2 1.000.000.000 years ago and that was later made solid into an iron full of money quartzite