Camping trips on the beach in Mexico were just the begining in a search for waves that has taken Alex and a bag full of boards around the Pacific and Indian Oceans experiencing new places and cultures while looking for the best gear to go along. Growing up in Southern California with a sailing and surfing family, the ocean has been a dominate influence which lead to a twenty year career as a Marine Safety Officer. He loves good gear, clean design and reading everything from the ancient classics by Homer and detective fiction by Dashiell Hammett. Known for being fierce, especially when protecting their burrows, Badgers are more often than not gregarious with others and enjoy the finer things in life.īadger, Alex Riley has spent nearly his entire life on or in the Pacific Ocean. Badgers even build separate latrines for their special alone time. In fact, Badgers are very fastidious, they line their well built burrows called setts with soft, dry grass which they clean and replace often. Unlike his cousin the Honey Badger, he does care. In the same way California tribes would form rough blanks of the tools which were then easier to transport and would be then finished off by the end user sometimes a thousand miles away.īadger (Meles meles) also known as the Eurasian Badger is recognizable for his iconic striped face and bushy flanks. The edge is SO sharp, in fact, that it is extremely fragile, and easily broken. Obsidian naturally breaks on neat conchoidal shapes, forming an extremely sharp edge. Excavation in Europe have found obsidian tools were part of vast ancient trade routes that were a precursor the the silk road. Answer (1 of 3): Generally, you get a nice edge on obsidian (which is a glass) by flaking. Tools formed by Indians living near present day Yellowstone have been found as far away as Illinois and the Gulf of Mexico. ![]() By examining the debris at some sites archaeologists have suggested that assembly lines were used to shape tens of thousands of obsidian tools for trading purposes. This scarcity lead the Indians who had access to obsidian to create an industry dedicated to the harvesting, shaping and trading of obsidian among the various distant tribes. The sharp and effective arrow heads made from obsidian allowed the Indians to take much larger prey and made life easier than previous blunt tipped wooden arrows that were only effective on very small game such as squirrels and rabbits.ĭue to obsidian’s link to volcanos, it is primary found west of the Mississippi. ![]() An Indian with access to an obsidian deposit could carry a small set off tools for flaking the volcanic glass and create a useful assortment of implements such as knives, scrappers and arrow heads. Over time the Indians learned to shape the volcanic glass into the forms needed to produce various tools- a process called knapping. In North America Native Americans living near former eruption sites would have found the obsidian laying on the ground with naturally formed edges which they used as simple cutting tools. ![]() The Raw Materials: A Large Deposit of Volcanic Glass at Oregon’s Newberry Caldera
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