Small Blade or Triangular Point?

[OntarioArch]

Found in Central New York, this one doesn't fit any triangular point typology from Dr. Ritchie or from the new "A New England Typology" - a beautiful, beautiful book, by the way. (A New England Typology of Native American Projectile Points Exp.)

Could it be a small blade / knife / scraper and not a projectile point at all? That's what I am leaning toward at the moment.

 

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[pickaway]

kinda looks like a reworked tip... nice find

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

a complete bifacal point. Always a good find!
What's the rock type?

 

[OntarioArch]

a complete bifacal point. Always a good find!
What's the rock type?

Onondaga Chert, I would say.

Also, one of the 'tips' I just read about detecting fakes was to look at differences between the patina of the two sides of a artifact: one side faced up and one side faced down for a l-o-n-g time. These photos show well the differences between two sides in this specimen. Is that 'mineralization' that causes color differences?

 

[rock]

Id say end scraper the narrow section would go into a bone handle and the wide end is the scraping section. Its a nice one to.

 

[arrow86]

I could see it used as a small blade sided look plenty sharp enough

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Id say end scraper the narrow section would go into a bone handle and the wide end is the scraping section. Its a nice one to.

I have to agree with this assessment. I see a nice Scraper type Tool.