Post Your Thumb Scrapers if you have some

Tnmountains · Sep 4, 2012

Open posting. Post those little uniface thumb scrapers we find. Here are a few and will post more if people are interested...

birdpointgriswold · Sep 5, 2012

theviking said:
How about some Crystal Quartz

Beautiful I find crystal quartz quite often and I save every piece

Johnathan Griswold

rock · Sep 5, 2012

Here is some of mine. Some from Tx and some from Ga border of Tn.

rock · Sep 5, 2012

Oops double post. Tx on the left others on right.

Charmin · Sep 5, 2012

Here's a couple of personal finds that I would consider thumb scrapers....one is uniface and the other is biface. The biface one has the most beautiful flaking!

And here's some that my grandpa and mom found
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Great thread, TnMtns---love all the pictures guys!!

Tnmountains · Sep 5, 2012

Wow. What a bunch of great examples. I do not even know what to say. Wonder how many we have missed over have in our flint buckets. Makes me want to go back over all those flakes I bring home.
So I am guessing from Paleo and earlier to time of contact this was an every day tool?

Tnmountains · Sep 5, 2012

T Witko said:
Scrapers found in July and August.

I picked up 4 tonight.

July and August?? Wow!! So your site was making these a lot and it was a buffalo culture? Meat?

Age_old · Sep 5, 2012

Here is my favorite. It's the top of a drill that broke, and then was re-knapped to be a scraper.

NC field hunter · Sep 5, 2012

T Witko said:
The pertrified wood one is one of my favorites.

You find the prettiest transparent stuff I've ever seen. I've got to tell you, when I read your post, I picture you as your avatar pic. Don't know why. But, that is a compliment , and I mean that.

larson1951 · Sep 6, 2012

NC field hunter said:
You find the prettiest transparent stuff I've ever seen. I've got to tell you, when I read your post, I picture you as your avatar pic. Don't know why. But, that is a compliment , and I mean that.

i agree with you NC,
that is the original Twitko in his avatar, chief fool bear
twitko is one of my best friendds
he works to help take care of the site we hunt which is owned by our friend
then he gets his chokecherry flippin' stick and scores with it almost every day

T Witko · Sep 6, 2012

NC field hunter said:
You find the prettiest transparent stuff I've ever seen. I've got to tell you, when I read your post, I picture you as your avatar pic. Don't know why. But, that is a compliment , and I mean that.

Thanks. Here is some Tatanka Witko info.

T Witko said:
In the early 70's I purchased a box of "stuff" at an auction and one of the items in it was an American Indian painting done on muslin depicting some kind of dance or ceremony with Tatonka Witko printed on it. This some of the info I've been able to find about him.

There is an attached document with more photos and additional info.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/a...71984-indian-chief-photos-fool-bull-tnet-.doc

Fool Bull, "Tatanka Witko", Brule Sioux Medicine Man (1844-1909)

Fool Bull, medicine man and warrior, holds his painted buffalo hide shield, which he carried in the Battle of Little Bighorn and a horse of the Dog Soldier Society. His shield may be an actual old war shield, it at least has a buckskin cover and not a muslin one like so many created during this period. Across his lap is a serrated whip made from a section of milled board, which he is holding by a fox or coyote skin wrist strap. This whip could have been related to his status as a Grass Dance whip man or to his membership in a warrior society. His claw necklace seems to be made of claws made from some material such as hoof or antler.
Photograph by John A. Anderson, 1900

There are some more photos in my reply in this thread

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/american-indian-artifacts/169237-indian-chief-photos.html

flintdigger · Sep 6, 2012

Very interesting photo.

pickaway · Sep 6, 2012

Harry Pristis said:
"Thumbscraper" sounds painful! Here is a thumbnail scraper from Florida. The "thumbnail" is the large, flat area on the convex side of the scraper. This flat area is the untouched remainder of the exterior of the thick flake after the edges have been sharpened by pressure flaking.
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Purdy includes these uniface tool among the larger category of "blunt-nose end scrapers." These tools, she suggests, are part of the Late Paleoindian toolkit, and they have been reported from the Late Paleolithic of Europe. The book example comes from a Florida site with mixed Archaic and Late Paleo lithics. Purdy does not provide the dimensions of her figured example, but I have offered the measurements of one example in my collection.

Glad to see someone from Florida knows what a uniface scraper is...

NC field hunter · Sep 6, 2012

Found one after work

Tnmountains · Aug 20, 2016

Goooood morning Artifact hunters!

I awoke and was going through some things and googled thumbnail scrappers. Guess where it brought me? Coffee is brewing. Was wondering in context when earliest examples show up?
Have a great day with an old post from the past that sits still on top of Google searches. See some old dear friends we all miss on here.
HH
TnMtns

Wes213 · Aug 21, 2016

Let me add a few.

rock · Aug 23, 2016

Couple of real nice guys in those pics of finds. Both are missed.

willjo · Aug 24, 2016

Thumb Scrapers

Some i have

redbeardrelics · Aug 28, 2016

Hey Tnmountains, thanks for bringing this older post back to life, it was started before my time on tnet and I had not seen it before. I find it interesting that "thumbnail" may be in reference to a thumbnail size flat spot on the convex face of the scraper. I had always assumed that it was more in reference to tools that would do jobs that were originally done with thumb and fingernails? Most of the sites I hunt are multi-componenet, but I do seem to get the impression that these type scrapers are more prevalent on mid-archaic era sites here on the Delmarva peninisula, for what that's worth.