A Very Favorite

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A double awl of what looks like black Buffalo River Chert found in Indiana (!). Meticulous edge retouching along scraping face. Paleo seasonal migrations in this area, judging by lithic transport, were south to north, so not improbable. Examples would be the first Paleo folk in Ontario, whose tools & points were of Coshocton chert (and would have required a long journey, skirting the southern shore of Lake Erie to get there) and either Nobles Pond or Paleo Crossing on Ohio (I forget which), where nearly everything was Dongala hornstone from southern Indiana. More questions than answers with this stuff !

 

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[MAMucker]

I see why it’s a favorite

 

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Great minds run in the same channels !

 

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And a companion piece. Also of hornstone ("Kentucky Blue"), square-edged on the left side like the other, and with a coronet graver at the end. Right side is a knife along most of its length, with a short scraper section where it meets the base (which is also square and thus, essentially, a burin). ex Bill Tattoo & Dick Savige.