Little Limaces and the Swiss Army Knife Again

[uniface]

The three tools that look like pencil stubs are small Limaces, a Paleo tool form. Unifaces, they're flaked "up and over" the way Early Archaic scrapers are, and have graver tips as a rule.

The red one is baked Berks county jasper from Montgomery County, Penna. The grey one is of Onondaga, found by Dick Savage in Union County, Penna. The while one is of extremely patinated Logan Chert, found by Steve Worden on an Auglaze River site in either NW Ohio or over the border in Michigan.

The last one is a little better picture of the Clovis Swiss Army Knife I tried to picture before.

 

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[Th3rty7]

cool, like those mini limaces, thanks for bringing these little guys to my attention, matter of fact thanks for bringing limaces, aka slug shaped scrapers to my attention.

 

[uniface]

Glad to be of service

 

[Tnmountains]

My gosh man you are starting to post pictures /!!!!!!! Way cool. I have some like that that are uni but flaked up and over a little bit. Nice pictures. Great tools. Thanks.
TnMountains

 

[uniface]

There are "up & overs" too, TnMountains. They generally are. Thirty7 has a sweet one that isn't.

 

[rock]

nice looking artifacts

 

[arrow86]

Nice artifacts

 

[ToddsPoint]

You're in PA so not far from OH. Could the bottom piece be Flintridge? Gary

 

[uniface]

Material is called "Kentucky Blue" by collectors. I believe it's a variety of Ste. Genevieve chert. Also called Hopkinsville Chert" by, if memory serves, Doc Gramly. Looks like Hornstone (Dongala).

Complicating the picture is that Brian Williard (Insight artifact analysis) has been identifying artifacts I've sent him that I'd assumed were Hornstone as other lithics on the basis of their response profiles to OSL testing.

Except for a few no-brainers I'm a lot less confident in material identification than previously.

Since you asked.

 

[redbeardrelics]

Cool artifacts, do the graver tips seem to curve upward on the top three, and is that diagnostic to them being limaces? Thank you.

 

[uniface]

Bottom faces of limaces are flat.

FWIW