ncnurseryman
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Found this today. Looks like a river cobble stone with one end chipped at. Could it be a pecking stone?
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If found on a site, I would say hammerstone. Not sure what people mean by "pecking stone" anyway, unless it's the same function being described. That looks like a small hammerstone.
Hammer stones were used to to make other stone tools like the points and blades.
That's what I thought, just was wonderin what Charl was meanin why they call them peckin stones..
Pecking stones were used for the nitty gritty fine work, I thought.??
Most pecking stone have a more of a smooth wear pattern to them, because they sat and hit the item with medium blows just to remove a small amount of rock powder at a time. That's where the word pecking comes in, they were not trying to break it just smash a small amount of rock to powder. A hammer stone was used with hard direct force to break off a large flake or removing flakes to make tools. Most hammer stone show heavy wear on the end like the one you found.JMO Great find