Levallois stone tools ??? + Mystery stone !!

[cowsaretrippy]

Hey all,

So the first 2 pics you can see the group of stones all have simular distinctive triangle cut outs in the middle, has anyone else seen before? It reminds me of levallois type tools but still not quite the same.

The last few photos i was wandering if it could be a potential tool or bird effigy because of thestrange shape. .. just looking for thoughts


( everything found over a few yrs time at a farm in South eastern PA)

 

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[Doubter in MD]

I like your name, cowsaretrippy. I googled it. Among other things, I got this:





Good luck with your finds.

 

[Red-Coat]

I’m afraid I don’t see evidence of human modification in the first two pictures and certainly nothing that resembles ‘Levallois’ artefacts. Levallois is a technique. Yes it results in artefacts of particular shapes that can be classified in groups, but it’s the technique that defines them and the material you have there doesn’t lend itself to that technique. You really need something ‘glassier’ that has a much more conchoidal fracture.

Here’s some examples from my collection, mainly from Mousterian (Neanderthal) sites in France. A classic Levallois ‘tortoiseshell’ core at initial stages of reduction, a biface from that type of core, a couple of blades and a couple of points made on Levallois flakes taken off such cores.





The final item might well be shaped and have a man-made hole in it, but it looks more like a broken piece of historic masonry than a Native American artefact

 

[BillA]

RC, nice pieces

 

[ticndig]

I see a core drilled rock .

 

[Mud Hut]

I have seen rocks similar to the rock with a groove in it identified as shaft straighteners for arrows.

 

[GoldieLocks]

I would say something like a coarse sand paper or large bevel was used on the larger bottom image piece, a very modern work.

 

[unclemac]

your first three are spalls that pop off that type of rock frequently from weathering, or tumbling. they are a very common shape for that type of rock.