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CAREY WEBER'S
ANDICE POINTS
A LIFELONG JOURNEY OF EXPERIMENT & LEARNING
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COPYRIGHT FEBRUARY 28, 2003 PETER A. BOSTROM
Andice-Bell points made by Carey Weber.
EXAMPLES OF ANDICE POINTS MADE BY CAREY WEBER
CAREY WEBER COLLECTION

ABSTRACT:
Carey Weber making an Andice point.
CAREY WEBER WORKING ON AN ANDICE POINT
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   Carey Weber lives in central Texas where he works as an employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As a hobby he's been very focused on the craft of flintknapping since the age of 11. His main interest is notching and the deep basally notched Andice-Bell-Calf Creek points are his specialty. He has published or co-published ten papers related to lithic technology.
   The point types under discussion are the Andice, Bell and Calf Creek points. They all have deep basal notches and come from generally the same location in the U.S. with the Calf Creek points ranging farther to the northeast from Texas where all three have been found. They are considered Early Archaic knives that date to somewhere between 7,100 to 9,500 years ago. To save space they will be referred to as Andice points in this article.

   "In 1981 Bill Carroll and a friend showed me the first Andice/Bell/Calf Creek artifacts that I had ever seen----From that time on I was hooked on notching"---2003, Carey Weber


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THESE SEVEN ANDICE POINTS WERE MADE BY CAREY WEBER

ANDICE POINTS
REPLICATED BY CAREY WEBER

   Carey Weber was born in Fredericksburg, Texas in 1953. He's been interested in Stone Age artifacts for about as long as he can remember. By the third grade he had assembled a small collection of artifacts which he took to school on Earth Science Day---and never saw them again! The loss of the artifacts didn't stop him though. He says "the loss of those stone objects instilled in me a wonder of how they were made."

Carey Weber's flintknapping tool kit.
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CAREY WEBER'S TOOL KIT
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   This is the tool kit that Carey Weber uses to make  Andice points. The long handled tool at the bottom is his pressure flaking "Ishi stick." The long handle gives the knapper additional leverage for pushing off biface shaping and thinning flakes. The "Ishi stick" was named after Ishi, the famous Yahi Indian who wandered out of the California wilderness in 1911 and who used the same type of tool to make his arrow points.
   The larger board in this picture is a "lab board" which serves as a platform from which to work off of. The smaller board at the top is used as a hammer to strike anyone of a variety of punches during the notching process. The piece of leather is used for protection from sharp flakes and positioning the artifact during the notching process. Also pictured are both round and  flat punches that are used in the notching process. The finished Andice/Bell point was made by Carey Weber.

   Carey says "the rumor rampant on the street was that Native Americans dropped cold water on hot flint to chip them out." He was lucky though, his neighbor had a ranch with a very dense distribution of archaeological sites that he was able to collect on. The neighbor also had a father who could flint-knap and in fact "fixed them (points) all the time." Carey's first sight of someone flintknapping was this man "re-tipping an Ensor point by pressure flaking with a screw driver on a 2" X 4" pine lap board.

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"REFERENCES"

1985, "Selected Preforms, Points, and Knives of the North American Indians, Vol. I," Calf Creek, by Greg Perino, p.62.
1987, "Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States," Calf Creek, by Noel D. Justice, pp. 59 & 60.
1991, "Selected Preforms, Points, and Knives of the North American Indians," Andice, by Greg Perino, p. 4.
1991, "Selected Preforms, Points, and Knives of the North American Indians, Bell, by Greg Perino, p. 21.
2003, "Carey Weber - A Flintknapping Biograqphy," (unpublished report), by Carey Weber.
Personal communications with Carey Weber.

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