Abstract
Bi-beveled bone rods are sometimes found in association with fluted bifaces. It has previously been proposed that these rods served variously as foreshafts for spears or lances, pressure-flaking tools, butchering tools, sled shoes, composite parts of a longer shaft or rod, and as hafting wedges. The most recent proposal is that they served in pairs as a composite clothes pin foreshaft—a proposal based on their uniquely shaped cross sections and the fact that the angles of the two bevels on each specimen vary. Evaluation of the evidence mustered in support of this proposed model of function indicates the critical data variously 1) do not exist, 2) contradict the model, and 3) are not accounted for by the model.
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