Uniface knife

[Tnmountains]

I was chatting with a farmer last weekend about access to a creek and was kicking at some flint with my boots as we talked . I saw this and figured it was just a reduction flake. Kicked it several times and it came loose and felt the ripples on the edge with my finger. Stuck it in my pocket and forgot about it.Anyways upon further inspection is was a utilized reduction flake. They worked one edge used the tool for its purpose probably to cut something then threw it away. The cool thing about these kinda tools are they made them in the earliest times and also made them up until the end. I like collecting the tools that show the work and was glad I did not pass this one up. No value in these but still an important artifact that is easily missed. Sometimes you find these large flakes in water hunts but they can look worked from river tumble against rocks. This is just worked on the one side so man did it and make it a true unifaced tool.
Happy Hunting and feel free to share any unifaced tools ( not thumb scrapers) you may have come across.




In the hand



No work visible Uniface



Outside of reduction flake



Closer look reveals worked edge on just one side



cool material

 

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[Bow Only]

Thanks and wanted to welcome you to the forum! I have the coolest little camera with a lot of microscope modes and am trying to learn. I was hoping to capture that the flaking was all removed from just one side or maybe all in the same direction.

I went in the other direction. I bought a microscope that has a camera. I've seen where some points were used exclusively on soft materials like leather but most were used for hard surfaces.

 

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[dts52]

Beautiful find!
HH
dts

 

[monsterrack]

Flake knifes are one of the easiest artifacts to over look. This one I picked up just because I liked the color of the flake and when I got home I noticed the edge work. I was finding some good stuff that day and had this on the brain. Sometimes we have to keep our minds and eyes open so we can find other artifacts other than points.

 

[Tnmountains]

You guys are killing it. I like seeing that big flaking !

 

[redbeardrelics]

Here are two little utilized flake tools I picked up Wednesday. I did not realize the red jasper piece was worked on one side until I got home and rinsed it off, just kept it because I did not want to take a chance of having to bend over and pick it up again in the years to come. lol

 

[Hot diggity]

Yep, don't ignore those flakes. Natives seemed to like colorful jasper a lot. Understandable. Nice...

 

[rock]

I know I have some flake tools. Here is some I have found. The white one is quartz and a archy told me it was some type of hand axe maybe for digging roots with.