Fluted Knife.

[choo]

I put this knife on thirty 7 blades and preforms I dont know if everyone seen it so I will post it
by itself.

 

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[Buckhunter]

neat tool!

 

[uniface]

Super tool !!!!!!!!!!

 

[Th3rty7]

Interesting tool...looks like a core to me , possibly utilized as a tool. I'd say the " flutes " were most likely previous flakes driven off the core, I don't think that would have been hafted. jmo

 

[joshuaream]

Great piece! I love the outre passe flaking on the other side.

 

[*Molly*]

Very unusual. Nice blade.
So is that Paleo?

molly.

 

[uniface]

IMHO, yes.

It's an exhausted core modified into a knife. A very choice item.

(If it's from west of the Mississippi it might be later)

 

[ohio]

Nice tool! It looks like Breathitt from my area but, I am guessing from you being so north that it is not.

Chuck

 

[choo]

Thanks for the compliments and opinions. the piece looks paleo to me, but i guess it could of been
a core then utilized as a knife I just have never seen anything like it and i have quite a few cores
all of the cores I have bladlets are strickin off all over the piece.I am from ohio south of columbus

 

[uniface]

MO : The side with the blade removals isn't diagnostic, but the coast-to-coast flake removals from the other side are strongly suggestive.

 

[joshuaream]

How thick/thin is the piece?

Clovis peoples made some thin cores, and might have recycled a broken biface into a core for the purpose of salvaging some fine material. And their bifaces/knives were cores anyway in many cases.

Here is a broken clovis biface from Kentucky.

This piece was discarded (it was found already broken), but they could have worked the base into a core by setting up platforms and driving off bladelets. In this case there was plenty of material close by, but maybe your guy just didn't want to waste the material or didn't have any more material readily available.

Joshua

 

[larson1951]

choo,
the first time i saw your piece i thought it was a core that had a couple real nice bladelets removed from the one side

 

[choo]

Here are some new pics I took.the piece is about 3/8 inches thick.

 

[creek astronaut]

cool finds choo.when you want to do some huntn?thx for sharing the pics

 

[uniface]

Josh -- that preform swamps my boat every time you show it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[flintdigger]

That is really a great piece.