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"Gordon Couger" wrote in message
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There is a fellow in the US that makes obsidian knives for eye surgeons
using the same flaking methods as were used for flint knives. Laboratories
also use freshly broken glass knives to section specimens for examination
for microscopes. So the art is not completely lost.

There are still people flint knapping but I've never seen any piece of flint
big enough to compare with even a small sickle blade. I wondered if they
grew bigger in Oz's 30C (or whenever it was ... )

Mary