ANTLER TOOL? CENTRAL OHIO

[muddpuppy]

Hello fellow members. I found the antler yesterday in a wash that I have found several flint pieces(knives/arrowhead/ scrapers) in the past. It has been modified with grooves. I have no experience with antler tools and I am hoping for information weather it is, isn't, or might be. Thanks in advance for your comments. Scan The Land!!

 

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[bravowhiskey]

antler tools were sure used, but the tip of the antler was most likely the working end. I don't know the relevance of the grooves at the other end. anyway a deer antler would never have survived in the environment you found it for that length of time and in that condition.
it was modified for a purpose however and someone sure used it as a tool. IMO

 

[The Grim Reaper]

I have found a lot of Antler artifacts in the past 30 years or so and I have never seen one that was grooved like that on the broken end. Can you show pictures of the tip? That would most likely be the working end if it's a Tool. Have no idea what purpose the grooves would serve.

Heres a few pictures of some of my Antler artifacts. Some Antler Arrowpoints and Flakers, some Antler Drifts, and some cut pieces of Antler.

 

[joshuaream]

Normally little grooves in antler are chew marks from animals, but I have no idea what made those.

Neat find.

 

[dognose]

Interesting find. I have not found any thing like that.

 

[ToddsPoint]

It looks like a serrated canon bone flesher. Gary

 

[muddpuppy]

Here are a few more pictures, thanks.View attachment 1819300

 

[muddpuppy]

I have found a lot of Antler artifacts in the past 30 years or so and I have never seen one that was grooved like that on the broken end. Can you show pictures of the tip? That would most likely be the working end if it's a Tool. Have no idea what purpose the grooves would serve.

Heres a few pictures of some of my Antler artifacts. Some Antler Arrowpoints and Flakers, some Antler Drifts, and some cut pieces of Antler.

Were any of these field finds? Thanks.

 

[Buckleberry]

Very cool, I never find any antler in this part of Ohio, I'm assuming the soil here is too acidic. Anyway maybe that end was used as some type of musical rasp?

https://mvac.uwlax.edu/glossary/rasp/

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/yaqui-vintage-musical-rasp-mesquite-1873001090

 

[monsterrack]

JMO the grooves in the end are almost perfect in the same width, it looks like a modern tool made those cuts. Hand cutting with a stone would not be that repetitive in shape an size.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

It looks like a serrated canon bone flesher. Gary

That was my first thought as well, but if it is then it's the first one I've seen made from Antler.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Were any of these field finds? Thanks.

Pretty much all of them. Some of the Antler Drifts were buys, but quite a few I found too.

 

[Tdog]

JMO the grooves in the end are almost perfect in the same width, it looks like a modern tool made those cuts. Hand cutting with a stone would not be that repetitive in shape an size.

Yes, it looks like a modern cutter lopped it right off the main beam in one chomp.