Bone, at work and play, tools for every need

It Would not take long for even a novice to grasp the fact that stone was the most common material used at the site for making man's earliest tools. The lithic skills of man had been in use for several millions of years. Some reports suggest that tools make of stone predated man, that hominid, the first creature to walk upright, made stone tools. But that is not to suggest that, to discuses stone tools, we have offered the full store of tools. We need point out, that we know of stone tools due to there natural ability to survive the eons. But does that say that only stone was put to use by man, over the long history of both man the creature and man the human? At the Zueberburler shelter a second material survived, one that demonstrated that it had also played an important role in serving man as tools, the bones. It can not be of a great surprise that this material should find a place in the crafts of man. A hunter and consumer of flesh, the supply of bones would be endless. The Pecos Museum noted the bone evidence of deer, rodents, fish, birds, turtles, and man, at the site. All had been in some way been altered by early man. While not near as numerous as stone tools, of which there were several thousand recovered at the shelter. bone tools were at least as varied in there use. This was clearly evident in the crafts. While stone tools would fill the need to brake things, bone and other stone, bone was used to create. Each of the crafts that were to be developed at or employed at the site, required tools made of bone. The Pecos will offer a wide variety of these. In addition there will be short side trips, on how the tools were used. Even the stone was, in some ways, replaced in the craft of making points. So we list below the various crafts found at the shelter. A text offering some insights and views of tools employed. The making of stone points. Bone flakers. The tools for making sandals, and other jobs. Tool at use. The skill of fishing. The harpoon and fishhook plus gouge. The bones in art and beads. painted. Had your fill of bones, then it's back to the