MISSISSIPPI FINDS.. NEED HELP! CAN SOMEONE IDENTIFY THIS

[desire3339]

I FOUND THIS ON THE PEARL RIVER IN MISSISSIPPI IN COPIAH COUNTY. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THIS IS THANKS

[saw1]

It looks like it might be the beginnings of an arrowhead being "knapped" and something went wrong and it was discarded. Just maybe?

SAW1

[PBK]

It looks like it might be the beginnings of an arrowhead being "knapped" and something went wrong and it was discarded. Just maybe?

SAW1

Could have been used as is, as a small scraper... or as you say, it might be a preform (unfinished point or tool).

[Atlantis0077]

Howdy,

It looks like a preform or blank. Probably they didn't like the way it was chipping. You can find a ton of those in village and camp sites. Many times the Indians would take large and small stones...they would pre-work the small ones and knock blanks or preforms off the larger core stones. Then they could transport this smaller "blanked out" stones to other locations where they could be transformed into a completed arrowheads. If you ever run across one of these working areas you will readily recognize it because of the amount of flakes and chunks of chipped stone. On the down side, I once found an island in a lake that was absolutely covered with chips...could pick up literally 5 gallon buckets full of them.....found 2 points on the whole thing......guess they took it all with them and made few mistakes.

Atlantis

[desire3339]

i have a bunch of tools and flake from the same place i found that
thanks atlanis for explaining it like that. i understand it better now

[Oroblanco]

I would propose that this could be a hand-axe, in which case it is VERY old - similar hand-axes are online, if I were you I would do some more research on your very interesting find!
Oroblanco