The Fishhook Layer in Lithic Literature.
I am going to try to keep looking at rocks and fishhooks exciting for the viewers 😅. I am not a writer although I am slowly becoming one. I know I will never be great, but I feel it is helpful to document my findings and at the same time make them accessible to folks. In some ways my simple vocabulary to explain a complex design is not a bad thing. I may need to teach people how to see the material in order to speak about content. In this article I will cover the fishhook history as described in the design. With all that said I want to emphasize that the viewing/seeing/looking of the design in the stone itself is where you will find your answers. I am hoping that with this article covering fishing tackle, I may lure a co-writer from academia that might find my work interesting. I have chosen a garden stone with some oxidized designs using traces of iron in the rock thinking that metallurgy would be a good vein to follow in the fishhook story. The rusted fishhook designs were not t