Can't Believe It?????

I about fell out of my chair when I was working on my links to the Volgu blade and I found the following information. Am I reading this wrong, or does S.A. Semenov basically say The Volgu was made exactly in the same method as our theory about how The Sweetwater was made?

That being pressure flaking over percussion or a "POP" blade.

We had actually wondered about the flaking on The Volgu, because a lot of it actually had the same scarring pattern we discussed with The Sweetwater, but only having a picture to go by, made it tough to actually see.

If The Volgu, then why not The Sweetwater as well?

Here is the qoute from S.A Semenov from 1957 I am referring to:

"The peculiarity of this (bifacial reduction) is that it was a method of pressure on the edge of the flint rough-out (preform), used by Upper Paleolithic man, not just to remove tiny flakes and alter the angle of the point and shape of the (core) blade, but also to take off large and relatively thin flakes from the surface of the rough-out (preform). In other words it increased the plastic possibilities of stone working. By this means the irregular rough-out (preform) could be given a desired thickness at any point, made flatter, the end sharpened; the curve taken out of the top, edge or base."

Here is a link to the more information: http://www.lithiccastinglab.com/gallery-pages/2008januarysolutreanpage2.htm

Here is a qoute from my Sweetwater article, discussing our theory of how the Sweetwater was made, which can be found on the second page of this blog dated August 7th.

"The most intriguing part of all, he actually has identified at least 8 percussion flakes on Sweetwater, although the other 40 plus are pressure flakes. One of which, is obvious from the scarring cutting into the percussion flake from the pressure flake next to it, that the percussion flake was flaked first. So we believe the Sweetwater was percussion flaked to a thin preform similar to a rectangle in shape, then the large pressure flakes were removed, then the ends shaped with pressure flakes to finish the blade."

So what do you think?