provacative shape...another just a rock?

[unclemac]

I don't see any use for this rock as a tool, the shape is more like a pendant but of course no hole and too big. It's those darn scratches on it that have me. Across the top but especially in the front on the one side. Really looks purposefully altered. But the back...nothing...all natural.

Maybe someone was making something and pitched it aside?

 

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[NC field hunter]

I think you have a flared bit spade. I also see a hafting notch on that piece. Nice find!!

 

[trevmma]

pitch i would say nothing

 

[Tnmountains]

Natural and looks to soft.??

 

[NC field hunter]

What I see by the pic.



Small circle, scar from hafting wrap. Large circle, worn down due to use



Center is scared due to wrap style hafting. Hafting notches diagonally across following large top scar. Wear on bit circled



Notice on hafting notch, bit is made wider to prevent slip. I've seen too many of these. We're are you located. Tools are regional. We have no ancient artifacts to build igloos with here in the south.

 

[NC field hunter]

Large circle bit shows wear small circle, hafting notch.



Hafting scar diagonally across from notches
Also scars on bit


notice at notch, bit is wider to prevent slipping from haft. Where are you from? Tools are regional. I have nothing to build igloos with here in the south

 

[unclemac]

Found on the SW Washington coast...these guys were hunter/gatherers not farmers if that helps....big shellfish gatherers however...Clam and oyster beds are still just walk out and pick up what you want....

 

[larson1951]

a rock
isr

 

[NC field hunter]

Found on the SW Washington coast...these guys were hunter/gatherers not farmers if that helps....big shellfish gatherers however...Clam and oyster beds are still just walk out and pick up what you want....

Ok. So agriculture is out. Maybe they had tools for cleaning fish. Or even for making fish weirs. It still looks like a tool of some sort to me. I wish I could hold the piece for examination . Run your fingers over it. Feel for spots that are smooth, or rough, but mainly look or feel for a drastic change in the feel of the stone. I hope that makes sense. Close your eyes and kind of read the stone as if it were brail. May sound strange, but jus give it a shot!!

 

[The Grim Reaper]

It's a natural stone and nothing more. You can romance the Hell out of it with graphs, lines, and 8x10 glossies and it's still just a rock. lol

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Mother nature forms billions of rocks into neat shapes, but still rocks....

 

[larson1951]

so now a fish cleaning tool?
you know NC, that you have the best avatar in the whole of tnet and yet you have an ardent desire
and passion............ to romance a rock into an artifact
do you do that so you don't hurt Unclemacs feelings?
you are not helping him
i am not trying to make you mad at me or reaper or treasure hunter
just my two cents
steve

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[NC field hunter]

so now a fish cleaning tool?
you know NC, that you have the best avatar in the whole of tnet and yet you have an ardent desire
and passion............ to romance a rock into an artifact
do you do that so you don't hurt Unclemacs feelings?
you are not helping him
i am not trying to make you mad at me or reaper or treasure hunter
just my two cents
steve

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Not mad at any one, nor sugar coating any thing. Looking at pictures makes Identification hard. I know that you guys have more experience than me, and I respect you greatly. However, I see things in that picture that look too uniformed. I would hate to tell a man to discard a piece going on a picture. The avatar would have never been found had I not studied every map, lithic, and stone questionable to me. I have thrown good adze bits down because people didn't know what I had in my hand. I think he should keep the piece a while, see if another like it turns up. If he finds two or more alike, I'd say tool. After a few months and not another, chalk it up to mother nature. That is just me! I've found the nicest if the nice, and plain out crap by using this technique.

 

[unclemac]

Not mad at any one, nor sugar coating any thing. Looking at pictures makes Identification hard. I know that you guys have more experience than me, and I respect you greatly. However, I see things in that picture that look too uniformed. I would hate to tell a man to discard a piece going on a picture. The avatar would have never been found had I not studied every map, lithic, and stone questionable to me. I have thrown good adze bits down because people didn't know what I had in my hand. I think he should keep the piece a while, see if another like it turns up. If he finds two or more alike, I'd say tool. After a few months and not another, chalk it up to mother nature. That is just me! I've found the nicest if the nice, and plain out crap by using this technique.

where I found this was at the site of an old coastal village where I had found any number of points, pestles, trade good etc.....no other similar pieces even seen by me anywhere on this beach. It is not the shape that gets me so much but the odd wear that you can obviously see in the pictures.

 

[GatorBoy]

honestly I would have left it where it was....but... If that stone ever saw any use at all it might have been used as a sharpening stone.