These items are very old tools. Their function may not be immediately apparent to you but maybe if you think about it for a while some plausible answer will come to you. Questions are allowed if you think some additional clues will help you. Good luck.
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The hints that I got are, they are formed from clay and used to light fire for cooking. I made a research about these stones and I found one that I think could be the answer. Are these gabbroic stones? These were found in Trevisker area. Gabbroic stones were used during prehistoric time. These stones produce fire alone with no help of woods, and when plunged into water they heat water faster than the electric kettle that we are using this time. Am I right, Bob?
These little clay objects are thought to have been used for cooking. They were heated in a fire and then buried in a hole (an underground clay oven) with the food to be cooked. The more surface area, the faster the heat is given off. So a dozen of the #2 and 38 of the #6 for one and a half shadow movements may figure in to the recipe for a baked fish, depending on the size of the fish. Just like you may set your oven on 150 for 2 hours.
Without pottery (other than that carved out of stone)and in a place far from much stone these could be heated like a boiling stone and then dropped in a skin bag of water as boiling stones. Some archaeologists also believe that was a use of these.
There is one thing for sure with these. No one will ever know with complete certainty everything about these late archaic objects and the people who made them. These go back from about 2300 years ago to over 4000 years. And you thought you wouldn't learn anything today?
The items are involved in cooking. Besides roasting something directly over or near a fire, imagine how you could cook things without a pot to cook in.
How could you boil something like a soup, for example?
How could you slow cook something like we do bread, or maybe a fish?
Maybe they are parts(handles) of hand/bow drill. If they have a small hole where u could stick a stick(drill stem) then u could use them that way, I think.
They were actually shaped by hand from clay and then fired to be hard like a brick. That is why you see a shape of fingers on that one.
nebia said:
Were some of them used to light fires? maybe the two stones at the top!! Under them, the one on the right which has the shape of the hand fingers; it can be handled in the middle of the hand easily. It could be used to be thrown easily as a ball, to foccus on something like fruits situated in a higher tree or a bird flying, as an example for hunting!!! Am I right?
They are made of animals' bones, I think.
Were some of them used to light fires? maybe the two stones at the top!!
Under them, the one on the right which has the shape of the hand fingers; it can be handled in the middle of the hand easily. It could be used to be thrown easily as a ball, to foccus on something like fruits situated in a higher tree or a bird flying, as an example for hunting!!!
Am I right?
They are made of animals' bones, I think.
Good point Caroline. There is no scale to help you determine relative size. If I had one in my hand (bottom row of photo) I could close my hand with my finger tips touching. So you could say that they are a good handful but not too large.
Caroline Horton said:
How big are these? Are they considerably larger that pictured? If they were larger are they used to pound or grind?
If I said that these were heated to very high temperatures, would that help?
There is a difference in these in that some have more surface compared to the volume than others. There is a gradation in surface to volume ratio. You would not think that was something that was calculated way back before the invention of pottery or the bow and arrow.
How could that difference in the structure of these make a difference?
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Without pottery (other than that carved out of stone)and in a place far from much stone these could be heated like a boiling stone and then dropped in a skin bag of water as boiling stones. Some archaeologists also believe that was a use of these.
There is one thing for sure with these. No one will ever know with complete certainty everything about these late archaic objects and the people who made them. These go back from about 2300 years ago to over 4000 years. And you thought you wouldn't learn anything today?
How could you boil something like a soup, for example?
How could you slow cook something like we do bread, or maybe a fish?
nebia said:
Under them, the one on the right which has the shape of the hand fingers; it can be handled in the middle of the hand easily. It could be used to be thrown easily as a ball, to foccus on something like fruits situated in a higher tree or a bird flying, as an example for hunting!!!
Am I right?
They are made of animals' bones, I think.
Caroline Horton said:
There is a difference in these in that some have more surface compared to the volume than others. There is a gradation in surface to volume ratio. You would not think that was something that was calculated way back before the invention of pottery or the bow and arrow.
How could that difference in the structure of these make a difference?
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