Cool find for me

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I was camped on the Colorado side of Navajo Reservoir this week, and I went to check out this one site I had found before. In the last few years, scavengers have come in and picked clean almost every potsherd laying around. Nothing that would be the centerpiece of your collection, but you could see good examples of different cultures and influences. I still walk it and just look. So I see this one rock, believe me a lot of rocks there, and the groove, like a plow mark if we were in Oklahoma, caught my eye. I had to pick it up and look closer and I believe this is a hafted hammerstone. I've seen them before, but I've never encountered one in the wild so to speak, so I was a little bit slow to make the association. If so, it will probably date back about a 1,000 years. You guys can tell me if I'm right.
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I didn't see any use wear on it, maybe that could mean it wasn't used much. I think hammer stone is a safe generic ID without further context, but I still like the war club idea, thanks to you guys opinions and mainly because my Grandpa, came across all kinds of artifacts, would immediately call it a 'tommyhawk'. He could always tell you what everything he found was used for. Sometimes his ID's were so bizarre I would just have to hold my breath to keep from laughing and very many times his ID's were dead on, even though not proved by research yet.
 

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