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...grass surrounding Roach in a courtyard near the Peabody Museum was peppered with small, razor-sharp stone blades, which Roach, a budding bio-anthropologist, said had been used throughout the afternoon to slice meat for the roast...
...think I’ve whacked myself into a corner,” he said between blows, pointing out the failure of his attempts at “bilateral flaking,” an ancient process by which bits of stone are driven off both sides of a rock to create a tool with a knife-like edge...
Indeed, others had noticed the difficulty of cutting meat with bits of stone...
...This year we’ve gone the speedy route because it took us awhile to get [the meat] down to small-sized pieces,” she conceded. “But still, these roasts are an opportunity to get people together and learn how to make Paleolithic stone tools, to do it how you used to do it before you got the electric knife...
...Currier when it all started,” he said, explaining that the tradition began when the late archaeology professor Glynn L. Isaac, an expert in the Paleolithic period, decided in the early 1980s to combine the African tradition of roasting goats with the educational experience of making stone tools...