Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> On the contrary it's extremely easy to do.

Not because you say so.

> I'll
> describe how to do it,

Not using an actual femur of the same size and shape of the Cerutti mastodon in a physical experiment you won't.

> in the paper I'm writing.

Experimental archaeology is not done on paper, it is done in the field using facsimiles as close to the real material as humanly possible. I thought you knew that?
Here is a link to the video (you as a serious researcher couldn't find in the abstract of the Nature paper):
[www.theguardian.com]
Or are you implying Holen, as a team member, didn't need to show how it was done in actual practice, he could have just said so in the paper?

Your descriptions of something based on your imagination published somewhere where it escapes specialist peer review and disappears without warning with a click of a mouse isn't equal to a paper accepted by the journal Lithic Technology or American Antiquity etc. It is, sorry to say, sub-standard at best.