The Fishhook Layer in Lithic Literature.
THE FISHHOOK LAYER I am going to try to keep rocks and fishhooks exciting for the viewers 😅. 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. 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 the only images that drew me to this stone as a possible site to explore fishing gear. As I inspected the stone in different positions this flat fish was clear. It may also represent a good method of harvestin...