Interesting . . . if true . . . it substantiates my observation that the handle was possibly fossilized . . . the only question remains . . . how old...
It appeared to be the size of a modern carpenter's hammer just shaped like a modern geologic hammer . . . it did not look primitive in design at all...
So you then go back to the assumption of fraud . . . sure anything can be fraud . . . including cold fusion, the Piltdown Man, etc. . . . we are not...
What I was referring to is the present main stream scientific and academic world have no theories which allow a rational explanation for it to exist...
Your asking children from one of the poorest regions of the US in 1950s to act as though they had sophistication and resources . . . was not going to...