A point, a hammer stone, and a head scratcher

[Older The Better]

Got out before we get snow, found a few things
This point/preform… at least I think… not so sure it’s not supposed to be flipped as a scraper also an unusual material, not sure I’ve seen that before.

Next was just funny, quite the angry little bit of debitage

Next is a nice quartz hammer stone, no quartz anywhere in the area so definitely imported, with the battering and being found on a site I feel good about the id

Finally is this big hunk of flint that looks like it has a shaped edge but looking at the overall form I wouldn’t think it was anything… again not natural on a limestone/sandstone bluff top on a na site… probably just debitage but maybe they were trying to do something with it

 

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[dirstscratcher]

The first flint piece is a nice example of a hafted scraper. The flat end would have been inserted into a handle, bone or wood. The rest of the flint I would consider shatter debitage from making tools, and may well have been used as expedient tools.

 

[Older The Better]

So you see the scraper too. That was my initial reaction but when I actually look at it I think preform is the most simple explanation. With the ufos and fingerprint I wonder if it’s Kay county but I’ve never seen it in a cream and butterscotch color. If I wasn’t clear the pictures after the hammer stone are all the same piece probably nothing but that one edge seems oddly over worked for a random hunk

 

[dognose]

I agree with the scaper.

I see a hammer stone too, well used.

the odd metal item, is that conical, and crushed flat?

 

[Older The Better]

It’s not metal just a bit of flint, I was cleaning the debitage to see if I missed anything like a flake knife and I saw a little face looking back at me.

 

[magua]

It’s nice to find a humor stone with the other artifacts surrounding it. It confirms that it is way out of place and a definite cool find. Another note on the hammer stone, note to polished and darker areas, which are the accumulation of oils from skin that held those.

Nice finds.

 

[CreekSide]

Little unifaced tool and a hammer good finds

 

[Older The Better]

Sorry easy to overlook details when in hand, it’s a biface the faces do look pretty similar here’s a profile. That’s why I thought maybe preform but gut reaction when I found it was a scraper.