Found Today in New Jersey Creek - Native American Jasper Bladelet?

kushmeja

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Found this today while looking for Carnelian in some local streams. I'm pretty sure that it's an artifact, because it is jasper, looks worked and even has tiny serrations along the sharp edge too. I'm a novice with artifacts though, so I figured that I'd ask what others thought. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

John



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SportsmanAll

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I’m not seeing anything that would make it an artifact. Looks natural to me. But I’m no expert.
 

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If you blow up the last pic you can see the edge work on it. Some might say natural creek chatter but to me it looks like a broken something by that last pic. Its not all there so really could of been anything even a preform or just a test rock
 

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Looks like a big flake to me with the removals from previous strikes on the side in pic one and the flat other side where it was removed and the last pic looks like it was touched up a bit on one side.
 

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perhaps a rock someone used like for instance, a core....but not an artifact as in made and used for something.
 

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