is it a Tool,did I finally find a point out here? or just another flake?

[blueracer]

im guessing its just another flake because the back is flat and not worked at all, but this is a different "purposeful" looking shape compared to the random shaped flakes I usually find, but it also has that bump and slight curve. Thanks guys.

 

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[bci101tractors]

Might be a broken knife?
Nice find.
Thanks for posting...

 

[Rege-PA]

Looks like a flake knife, should be small flakes removed from edge through use. It could have been bigger and broke.

 

[larson1951]

it is a tool and welcome to the tnet friend
i think a uniface blade or (maybe) a backed blade....either way a broke piece but very interesting......but not a point

either way you should go back to that area for an afternoon and look around......ok?....
..........i am thinking you might come up with another good flaked piece

larson1951

 

[blueracer]

thank you, larson. I have already found many flakes, pottery shards, and larger preforms, but I have yet to find a point in this area. there has to be something somewhere. I probably have found 3+ pounds in percussion flakes of all different colors, some heat treated some not. So there has to be something there somewhere. I am hoping I can find something really nice.

 

[old digger]

Look like a flake blade. Nice!

 

[GatorBoy]

thank you, larson. I have already found many flakes, pottery shards, and larger preforms, but I have yet to find a point in this area. there has to be something somewhere. I probably have found 3+ pounds in percussion flakes of all different colors, some heat treated some not. So there has to be something there somewhere. I am hoping I can find something really nice.

Nice find.. I've been on sites like that..stick it out.
With the pottery and all the debitage you may be on a village trash pit.
There will be points there somewhere.
I'd do a real good look and some scratching around in a radius around that also.

 

[rock]

Most serious collectors will only pick up the points and leave the rest for me to find, lol. Good thing I like scrapers or my collection would be very few. Your find looks to be a broken flake tool. I have many of them the broken ones. Some whole but mostly broken. HH, rock

 

[TimeWaster]

I'd do a real good look and some scratching around in a radius around that also.

LOL, that radius thing reminds me when I found a broken knife, and pondered to a friend where the other half may be. He said, "Take a rock and throw it as far as you can from the point you found the broken knife. That will representhow far that guy threw the other half of that knife when it broke on him!

Good stuff, and not just a small flake either!

 

[GatorBoy]

Good advice.

 

[blueracer]

Nice find.. I've been on sites like that..stick it out.
With the pottery and all the debitage you may be on a village trash pit.
There will be points there somewhere.
I'd do a real good look and some scratching around in a radius around that also.

@gatorboy, does this look like check stamp? its pretty worn but I dont think thats random. looks like a pattern similar to chain link fence, or crosshatching? cant make it all out.

 

[blueracer]

Thanks guys. The broken knife was from a different area than I have been looking. glad to finally find something better, and on the first day in this area. I may be getting somewhere, I hope. I think Im starting to zero in. The pocket gophers dig up stuff, and Show me where I need to be....

 

[GatorBoy]

I don't think its purposely marked.
Looks like a thick piece Mabey towards the bottom of a pot that shrank up that way when firing.
Can you see fibers in the pottery?
Old fiber tempered pottery looks like that sometimes.

 

[GatorBoy]

Fiber temper



Check stamp

 

[blueracer]

Ah, yes it looks a lot like the fiber temper! but no, I can see any fibers but it was on the surface so its been exposed for a while. It is thicker than all the rest. How old might the fiber temper be? or was that technique
in continued use? One more thing, I found this it could be natural but man, it doesnt belong..is this for knapping or natural? nothing like it around. the sides are perfectly square. and flat. like a chunk of counter top but it isnt that.

 

[GatorBoy]

Got me
Hmmm.. piece of marble window sill? .. I doubt it but it looks like one.
Can you see marks from a wet saw?

 

[blueracer]

no modern tool marks at all. the broken edges are extremely worn, so its an old break. Ill throw it into the probably nothing pile. Thanks for bearing me putting a picture of every rock I find on here, im starting to figure things out.

 

[GatorBoy]

I think you have a pretty good handle on things.. best of luck to you... keep the posts coming,that's why I enjoy the forum more than anything else.
We can't always ask a buddy while we're hunting so having Tnet buddies is a big help.
And yeah.... don't toss anything til your sure.