Lets see some flake blades

[painterx7]

After seeing the most beautiful blade Darby posted , it gave me the idea for this thread . Here are some of my favorites and thanks again Darby for the view of yours !!!!!

 

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[painterx7]

gotta say you had a good idea for starting this thread jason......lots of interesting tools and blades here yepper old digger i know what you mean and that material sure looks familiar image one: that that is one of the biggest pieces of RBSW i have ever seen.......it's cool to find a point made of that stuff but very rare to see a blade

thanks for sharing yours as well Steve I am enjoying everyone's blades makes me want to go for a hunt haha ... If it weren't for Darby posting his I might not of thought about it

 

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[painterx7]

Good looking blades painter!! Thanks for sharing. Yours looks alot like mine, best i can see in my phone.

Thank you for your comments nice pieces everyone !!!

 

[painterx7]

Great thread PAINT!! I have some but havin trouble postin pics. Sayin they're to big? I might have to post in it's own thread. HH...

I had trouble at first it turned out it was my internet and not Tnet I swapped to another and it worked ...

 

[rock]

Lets see if I have any others to show.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[painterx7]

Boy them are some good ones gator sweet blades !!!! I like that little triangle point in the background frame it's pretty nice !!!!!

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks man

 

[DigIron2]

very neat stuff

 

[rls2040]

I love blades,here are the ones I have. The little black one,I am thinking a corner tang but it's really small so I am not sure on it. Could there be one that small?

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[painterx7]

Nice big flake blade !!!!

 

[rock]

als2040 the black one you are talking about is a end scraper with a spur tip on it. Very nice

 

[NC field hunter]

 

[painterx7]

Glad to see u post NC that black blade is super sweet !!!!!

 

[NC field hunter]

Glad to see u post NC that black blade is super sweet !!!!!

Thanks! These are a few that I have here at my house. I have a couple of really nice flake tools at work. I'll try to remember to get pics. Of them.

 

[outlawatheart]

here are few... the Hopewell is one of my favorite pieces!

 

[painterx7]

Them are some nice blades I like that last oval one !!!!

 

[old digger]

here are few...View attachment 936703 View attachment 936704 View attachment 936705 View attachment 936706 the Hopewell is one of my favorite pieces!

I see you have a few nice flake blades there!

 

[Harry Pristis]

This thread has gone off-track, I fear. There IS a definition of flake "blade," and painterX7 started the thread by showing some blades that fit the definition. Every chert or flint tool starts as a flake, but not every tool is a flake blade.

Here is a definition that would exclude many of the tools posted in this thread:

Blade tool definition:
1. twice as long as wide with blade margins fairly parallel.
2. two or more longitudinal crests or ridges indicating other flakes were removed from the core in the same direction.

Blades are the hallmark of the European Upper Paleolithic period and have antecedents in the Mousterian and perhaps even the late Acheulean periods. Many of the tools made on blades described for the European Upper Paleolithic are found also at sites in North America. ....B. Purdy, FLORIDA'S PREHISTORIC STONE TECHNOLOGY

 

[theviking]

Thanks for keeping us straight, Harry Pristis. Should a true flake blade also show a platform, and maybe a bulb of percussion if it has not been resharpened much?

 

[Harry Pristis]

Purdy provides a description of these blades, quoting Goodyear (1974) The Brand Site... (Arkansas). The definition I provided above is a summary of the Goodyear definition as quoted in Purdy's book. (The remarks about the history of blades are Purdy's.)

Goodyear (in Purdy) does refer to "force lines and and compression rings indicating that force was applied in the same direction as blade detachment." I think you can see compression rings in the first image below.

My understanding is that blades are used just as they are removed from the core. Once a blade is resharpened, it becomes a different sort of tool. I've called them flake knives in the past. Here are a couple of them.

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