Tools Weaving and cordage Tightly woven trays and bowls used for winnowing, parching, carrying, and

serving. Yucca leaves used to weave straps and tumplines for carrying loaded baskets. Expedient and disposable baskets also used. Making string or cordage must have been a common activity. Strings used to make hunting nets, fishing nets, net bags, carrying bags, snares, garments, and more. Checker-weave mats used for many things such as floor coverings, carrying things, lining beds, preparing food, wrapping corpses Wooden tools Digging sticks carried by everyone, young and old for general use Throwing sticks or atlatls made of hardwoods Wooden comb with red ochre at the shredded end Bones and shells White-tailed deer antlers Awl-used for weaving and other tasks-made of split deer bones, esp. the deer metapodial, a hard bone in the foot Bone needlesgrooved blunt end used to tie plant fibers for sewing. Some mats have sewn edges. No evidence of sewn clothes Deer antlerspunches or billets for flint knapping, antler tines for pressure flaking River mussel shells as spoons or ladles. Sharp shell edges used for scraping. Also as raw material for shell beads. Shell beads and ornaments found in various rock shelters. Stone tools Cooking stone most prevalent Tons of limestone from earth oven in Hinds Cave Chert breaks like glass. Makes a sharp edge. Two separate seams of chert in the Edwards Limestone formation. Most distinctive is dark gray with white specks. Knives , scrapers, dart points Cobblestones Dart points hafted to darts or spears hurled with aid of atlatl, mainly for hunting deer. Hafted dart points mens knives

Hunters Repair Kit Partially finished bifaces to finish into points as needed, large thin flakes to be used as expedient knives, sinew, hammer stone, antler punch, antler pressure flaking tool, medicinal items as hunting magic or curing. Hunters would carry this to repair damaged tips by re-chipping. Womens tool kits Digging stick, carrying baskets, hafted agave knife, bone awls, antler flaking tool, spare knife blades. Used for plant gathering Women used hafted agave knives to cut sotol, lechugilla, yucca, skin rabbits and rodents Hafted agave knives womens knives Hinds Cave artifacts page for picture group of chronological sequence of projectile points for Lower Pecos.