Knapping tool??

[captain redbeard]

This was a piece of quartz I picked out of a field around artifacts. I usually keep quartz I find and found this one to be real neat with the quartz crystal clusters. Have had it a while, but got to looking at it and thought it just might be something.




This is a small spot that looks ground down flat


Here's the "fits my hand just right" photos. Ive never attempted knapping myself, but I would imagine I would be Holding it similar to this.



May or may not be an artifact, but something is telling me it is. Its not perfectly ground and polished but most artifacts Ive found arent. Still a unique quartz find for out this way.

 

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[Jon Stewart]

So are you thinking it is a hammer stone?

 

[Indian Steve]

Very Cool Rock but not a tool.

 

[captain redbeard]

no idea thought maybe a knapping tool with the way the point is, its been in my rock garden a while just wanted to see what others thought about it, is a cool rock.

 

[dognose]

It does not fit the characteristics of a hammer stone from my area.

 

[willjo]

Looks like some of the material we find in our area that the NA's broke out of the rock getting to the good material to knap. would be a discarded piece not a hammer stone.

 

[rock]

Id call it a skipping stone

 

[sandchip]

With the flat spots, it may have been used for grinding or polishing something, but knapping was usually done with the base of an antler and pressure flaking with the tip of one. I would think that it would be hard to control percussion strikes with such an irregularly shaped stone.

 

[captain redbeard]

With the flat spots, it may have been used for grinding or polishing something, but knapping was usually done with the base of an antler and pressure flaking with the tip of one. I would think that it would be hard to control percussion strikes with such an irregularly shaped stone.

yea, was thinking some kind of pressure knapping tool, not hammerstone. How the wide flat end and ground spot fits my palm and where the point is would have perfect leverage to use that point for something. Perhaps just a rock, definitely doesn't deserve to be thrown and skipped into the river though

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

yea, was thinking some kind of pressure knapping tool, not hammerstone. How the wide flat end and ground spot fits my palm and where the point is would have perfect leverage to use that point for something. Perhaps just a rock, definitely doesn't deserve to be thrown and skipped into the river though

There is nothing on rock that says used as hammerstone. Best place is in rock garden. Don't get caught up in how a rock fits your hand, it will mislead you 99% of the time,

Almost any hand size rock will fit in hand if turned in enough directions enough times.

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[monsterrack]

To pressure flake you need a soft material but not to soft items like antler or copper work great.

 

[willjo]

Looks like some of the material we find in our area that the NA's broke out of the rock getting to the good material to knap. would be a discarded piece not a hammer stone.

I really like those pieces and used to pick them at a quarry site I used to visit, except these looked more like geodes with silica like formations in them.