I keep coming back and looking at your nice find. Can you please tell me what distinguishes this knife as being paleo? Sorry to sound so dumb but I have been wondering what particular traits to look for myself. Again great knife she is a beauty.
This link takes you to a page explaining how Mousterian points were made. Bear in mind, though, that a great many more blades were made this way than points, with removals coming from around the periphery of the parent core. If a pointed shape was desired, the blade would be shaped into one, as yours was.
By the same token, it might conceiveably be a removal from a platter-like bifacial core. But if so, why the high-angle edging around it ? The only paleo analogue to that re-sharpening strategy I can recall is what you find on Ohio Lanceolates and some points Hothem illustrated (in First Hunters) as late Paleo that I suspect were woodland.
It's an interesting artifact, whenever it was made. Thanks for showing it !
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