Donald Crabtree on the Beauty of Projectile Point Technology

There seems to be an erroneous opinion that the Folsom was made for beauty and its flutes for decoration, or due to the desire of the worker to reserve for posterity a record of his knapping skill. I do not believe the aboriginal had beauty in mind, or art for art’s sake, but, rather, was designing a practical and functional tool of high quality. As a stone-worker, I consider this point to be structurally and mechanically the best designed for its purpose of any weapon produced in this period of time.

Donald E. Crabtree. 1966. A stoneworker's approach to analyzing and replicating the Lindenmeier Folsom. Tebiwa 9:3-19. Cited in S. A. Ahler and P. Geib (2000), Why flute? Folsom point design and adaptation, Journal of Archaeological Science 27:299-820.