A Personal Favorite Artifact

uniface

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Love is where you find it, I guess.

Double endscrapers are common in Achulean contexts (European Paleolithic) but this is the only one I've ever seen from North America. It's on the crude side, but somebody thought highly enough of the material (Paoli Chert) to carry it from Carter County in Kentucky across the Ohio River and inland to Bremen, Ohio where Michael Gibson found it on a late Paleo/Early Archaic site.

That "hanging chads" are always removed by frost action is disproven here.

Endscraper at one end, nose scraper at the other. Neat spokeshave section on one side, too.

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My impression from the few pieces I've seen is that Paleo people liked the butterscotch/amber/tan color while Archaic & later stuff is grey. Probably an unfounded generalization, but when I see this color type my blood pressure elevates.
 

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