Apart from the stone walling, the rock art and digging stick weights there are other signs of previous human occupation of the area
An assortment of tools are found scattered around and in manufacturing area clusters at various places on the hike.
Below is an assortment of scrapers and stone flakes from the late stone age.
The flat long scraper is used for stripping bark and preparing tubers and other rough scraping work, a nice steepened edge is prepared on the stone specifically to strengthen and straighten it.
This one is made for fitting snugly in the hand for comfort during hour of long use and a more directed scraping point.
A More precision scraping tool made from a single flake, with a beautifully rounded outer edge. It is grey due to the patina that comes from weathering with age. The black flake shows the color it would have had when first made.
The business end, chipped from mush use.
an even more precise scraping tool, aptly named a thumbnail scraper. These are used for fine scraping work such as finishing off small parts of fine leather.
Great post again, I would love to know the type of rocks used to make the different tools too, if possible, the origine as well. Thanks, namaste :)
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The rock is a Metamorphosed siltstone, the metamorphosis came about because it was baked by intruding layers of lava. It is very hard after being baked and the fine grain of the silt enables it to deliver a fine sharp edge when flaked.
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Nice! Thanks for sharing, here on the west coast of the Pacific Northwest, we have mostly been using the obsidian from the Mt. Edziza's region high plateaus. I have a few specimen here and the level of sharpness is second to none. What scalpels they make! ;)
Thanks again for sharing and namaste :)
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Obsidian and good flint is the sharpest and is easiest to work if its good quality.
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Gavvet,
I very much like your hiking post,... Always interesting, and they make me want to plan my next vacation :)
Would you consider uploading a map of your hikes? It would be interesting to see
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there is a google earth image of the area in this post:
https://steemit.com/hiking/@gavvet/hiking-suikerboschfontein-part-11-the-chariot-of-the-dying-sun
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Thank you
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Interesting read, I did see TV programme a while ago showing you how they used flint, we wouldn't manage without our power tools these days :)
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yup, flint is handy stuff... we don't really have it in South Africa, so they used quartzite and siltstone
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Wonder what they would have made if they had what we have now
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Is that a megalithic objects found in Africa?
Here are the findings of Aceh Utara in @keuudeip collection, stored in @cisah base camp in the Lhokseumawe city. Incidentally yesterday I took a photo.
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You pictured rocks are carved... The ones from the hike are flaked... carving followed after flaking.
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actually I just wanted to show the equality of stones in a bucket on the upper side. Almost like yours.
and this is the best collection of megalithic (ax Sumatran) owned by @keuudeip
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Great to see you you're out there hiking
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Nice
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