Burin?

[Fred250]

After reading up on burins last night I realized what I thought were gravers might be burins. Hard to get a pic of the facets but this one has the diamond tip. Also what I believe to be a broken flakeshaver or limace.

 

[uniface]

Nice stuff, Fred. And good eye.

 

[outlaws15]

Fred are u seeing that the quarts piece(I'm only guessing quarts) has been worked. Im just trying to understand and can u show where it has been worked? I've been picking up pieces that catch my eye, pick them up just to put them back down if I don't c what has to be very visible work, because at this stage that is all I know.
Thanks

 

[Fred250]

I believe I found a spot where they cached the stuff they didn’t take with them on their seasonal migration. Everything there seems to be a tool of some sort, so I grabbed it all and figured it out later. I would never have thought any of it was worked without the years of research and study I have done on it, and if I posted pics of most of it I would get the debitage/natural response. I have sent pics to local archaeologists and they say while vaguely resembling tool forms probably natural. It kills me to think what I missed before becoming aware as I don’t have the same access to it I used too. Good luck and I would take everything home and start a rock garden for the maybe’s.

 

[Fred250]

And I didn’t think I had burins until uniface’s response last night so I still have almost no knowledge compared to many on here. Get a JSTOR account, you get 100 free articles a month and can search for those pertaining to your area.

 

[outlaws15]

Thanks for the reply and info.
It really helps.

 

[dognose]

I don't see the flaking I expect to see on a tool with a burin on the quartz you show, but that could be a factor of the image and material.

Typically the burins on a relic or flake tool are pretty obvious on the relics in my area.

The burin juts out a bit from the blade edge, normally not very much.
See http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/n...ting-harrison-county-flint-flake-scraper.html

 

[Fred250]

If you google image search burin you will see some twins to that piece. Agree the work is not visible. I will never again assume I am 100% correct about anything, you may well be right.

 

[goodtime]

Hope you don't mind my jumping in here Fred. This is a surface find of mine from June of 2014. Like some of you I've always been partial to well made tools and this is one of my favorites. It is the only artifact I've ever found that I consider to be burinated. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

 

[antmike915]

It's hard to see the detail work on quartz from pictures. One of the hardest materials to get a decent picture of in my opinion.

 

[uniface]

The burin juts out a bit from the blade edge, normally not very much.

On one type. But there are also "parrot beak burins" and other types as well. Rick D shows a third type in his Pleistocene Coalition articles. Don't know its name although I could show several here if I could show anything.

FWIW

 

[Fat]

GoodTime.... Great piece of pet. wood there

 

[goodtime]

GoodTime.... Great piece of pet. wood there

Thanks Fat. We don't find many petrified wood artifacts where we hunt so this one was a rare treat.

 

[dognose]

This relic is an interesting style.

A Thebes variant with a burin on the rounded blade tip area. This is an unbroken relic. It may be sharpened down to being small, but its complete.

The burin on this example is one of the better, more obvious examples of what you will see on blades or flake scraper blades which has a burin.

 

[uniface]

Nice !