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SACRED WELL Among the spectacular gold and jade artifacts that were dredged from the famous Cenote of Sacrifice almost a century ago (beginning on March 5, 1904), flaked stone artifacts were also found. These were in the form of projectile points, knife blades (some with handles still attached), obsidian blades & cores and waste flakes. Many of these artifacts were deliberately thermally damaged. But there were no "eccentric flints" found in
the well. made of perishable materials like cloth, wood and bone. Items found in this category that relate to flaked stone artifacts are fire hardened wooden foreshafts that once held corner-notched spear points and finely carved atlatls. |