what's the point identifying flint artifacts
Identifying Flint Artifacts. By the Ohio Historical Society. People have lived in Ohio for at least 15,000 years. The groups that lived here prior to AD 1700 are called prehistoric because their accomplishments were not recorded in written documents. We can learn about them through archaeology, the systematic study of the places where they lived — their sites — and the objects that they left behind — their artifacts.
During the time of Moses, flint knives were used to perform circumcision on males who had reached puberty. The use of flint knives was very important in early Jewish tradition, for Anthropologists state that the stone blade symbolized a connection to the earth and its elements.