Re: opening oysters with stone tools?

From: dave (dave_at_daveunderhill.co.uk)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:02:06 +0000 (UTC)

are you asking the right question?

it is surely not a question of whether they could, as whether they would?
what your dealing with is an ad hoc stratergies for obtaining sustenance, if
hammering works why change it?

to answer the question technically, the question becomes with what? i
wouldn't fancy doing it with a flake, not enough leverage. the rest of their
assembledge seems unlikly to me to have been employed in any action past
hammering or scraping, nothing seems to have the necesary slimness of edge.
If however you posit a perishable tool form, then the question comes back to
why bother if hammering will do it?