It took hundreds of years of people smoking and coughing and fly by boogers and floating dandruff to turn the Mona Lisa from an obnoxious brightly colored Drag Queen to the softened muted toned painting it is today. After all, the Davinci used to look horribly modern it took hundreds of years to develop that sfumato look. But if you set out to paint like Rembrandt or DaVinci you will only make a worse version. This would be similar to a Modern Painter trying to make an exact replica of a Rembrandt or DaVinci. What the Point? Well, if you consider that there have already been millions of Dalton points made, millions of Clovis and Folsom and Cumberlands made already, that making one in recent times is an act of copying the Old Masters.
Some people can mix metals with glass and other knappable materials. Some people can knap the shape of a point out from inside the point so is looks like a point within a point. Some people can Drill through the points and knap from the center outwards. Some people can flake on one side and polish the back side like the Egyptians. Some people can stitch their points back and fourth like the Danish. Some people can flake and notch into the points with exact precision. Some people can find exotic materials, some people can grind the exactly convexity in their material to ensure that each flake runs from edge to edge creating beautiful parallel ripple flakes. What is popular then is still popular now, but the points made now are popular because they appear similar the ancient points. This is a feeble attempt at trying to transcend knapping for the sake of lithic replication.
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