Monster Limace

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A limace (French term meaning garden slug) is, like one, longer than wide, generally pointed (when not re-purposes as they often were) and rounded cross sections (up-&-over flaking).In California they're known as "humpies;" in New England they're "flake shavers." They're particularly known from northeastern Paleo assemblages like Bull Brook, et al. and may
have persisted into the Early Archaic era.

This one, from Kentucky, has a huge graver spur at one end, and was heavily used as an endscraper at the other. Like the Boyle chert heavy blade pictured earlier, it was modified into a point at the butt for some (unknown) reason.

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