Guadalupe tool

[Adena_man]

I got this from a friend of mine who found it in Texas. I looked it up in a reference book and found that it was called a Guadalupe tool. It is a tyoe of scraping tool. It was used about 10,000 - 12,000 years ago. The second pic shows the underside of the tool and the actual scraper part, which is flat and very smooth from use. This is at the top of the pic.

Thanks for looking!

[bean man]

Very unusual! Cool and thanks for showing.

[fossis]

Nice Artifact, like your new Avitar.

Fossis....................

[Johnny X]

I think i may have some like that from the field.. i'll have to check my boxes. and yes.. i love the avatar.


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[Cannonman17]

The flat side of that was not used for scraping- it's not practical at all, an effective scraper has to have a uniform edge. I could believe that the edges of this may have been used as a scraper, just not the flast side. Lastly that "smoothness" on the flaking scar ridges is from age. I believe that is a fairly old artifact but unless that was excavated from a site with clovis points or mammoth bones or something else like that there is no way you can date it for sure.

[Adena_man]

Thanks for the posts guys! Hey Cannonman, I know very little about Texas artifacts. I was just going by what that reference book said. It had a picture of one that was exactly like mine. I need to find it and look this artifact up again. Maybe I got it wrong. Thanks for posting!

Good luck!

[Adena_man]

Cannonman, here is what I found on this tool. I was wrong on the age. It is actually from the early Archaic era and was used as a wood-working tool. The flat end was used to work on wood, which explains why it is very smooth (from use). I probably should have looked it up again before posting, rather than relying on memory.




This is the website that has some info on this and other tools found on the Kincaid site in Texas.

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kincaid/past.html

[Cannonman17]

That site you posted is pretty decent- good info. I can definately believe that this sort of tool could be used for woodworking...I should've thought of that!! Oh well. I guess it's a little bigger than the sort of wood working type tools that I'm used to seeing.

[Adena_man]

Hey Cannonman! I would love to hunt for points in Texas some day. There are some beautiful points that come out of there. I had never heard of a Guadalupe tool until a friend of mine gave that one to me. I've got a lot to learn about types from other areas. That's one of the good things about this forum, you can see and learn about artifacts from other regions of the country! I definitely appreciate other's opinions.

Thanks for posting!