Crazy beveled... knife?

[Older The Better]

Found this the other day, no luck on finding the base. It’s the most dramatic bevel I’ve ever found, I would think a knife but it’s got such a twist could it be a drill?

 

[Tdog]

I'd say it's the tip of a beveled point and not a drill because it continues to get larger as it expands downward. In many types, beveling is the result of re-sharpening one side of each face. One thing this does is conserve material thus making the piece last longer.

 

[Fat]

Broken Harahey. 4 beveled edges. Classic plains buffalo knife. It looks like the same lithic as your broken awl piece.
I like it.
I received an I pad for Xmas and think I have to get my so-called smart machine to find some pics, please be patient and I’ll go try and figure out.

 

[Gravelbar32]

Hey Older, Here is his twin bro from down the river. Found this in a field near the Neosho this fall. I wasn't sure what it was either.

 

[Older The Better]

Gravelbar32 sure looks like the same culture for what it’s worth I’ve got that site dated to Cuesta phase hopewell and the Pomona culture so middle woodland to Mississippian.

Harahey if I’m not mistaken would be older. If so that would add another component to that site... definitely possible it’s a nice spot that’s probably attracted people for many years.

Still working on id’ng my lithics that grey to black with white flecks is fairly common around here

 

[11KBP]

Being from Kansas it is most likely one end of a Harahey knife or possibly the tip end of a Neosho knife.

 

[Fat]

 

[Older The Better]

Ha, always learning, I was definitely wrong. harahey fits with the site timeline but it’s on the young end not older. Just want to correct myself so I don’t leave misinformation out there.

So fat, speaking of lithics is that Burlington?

 

[Fat]

 

[Fat]

 

[Fat]

I don’t know. I found floating the white river a few days from chamberlains SD. I have handled Burlington at a few shows. I think more of a pet wood but want to learn myself.
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Jaspers and the end shot piece is Spanish diggings
The bigger piece is Spanish diggings but I think more of shoshone?
All the pics are on my phone and that thing is so broke I can’t hardly see myself what I’m trying to do and I feel like I’m lost so slow that I end up looking at John Adams buttons and Todd’s point ingravings and Bart’s boat and mopars and knives and hot rods and Jeff’s music and guitars and gold and that blowed up cannon....
Do you folla me?

 

[H.P.]

I don’t know. I found floating the white river a few days from chamberlains SD. I have handled Burlington at a few shows. I think more of a pet wood but want to learn myself.

Beautiful, never had a chance of finding one of them I fla.good show Fat.

 

[Gravelbar32]

Seems to be a stout design but Ha, mine is broken, nonetheless.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Beveled blades are made that way for skinning game. The bevel acts as a ramp to peel the skin back. Back in the late 1800's, archaeologists like Warren Moorehead thought the bevel was to make it rotate in flight. For a long time they were called "rotary spears". Impossible, of course. I've skinned several deer and a coyote with beveled knives and I'm convinced that's what they're for. Gary

 

[outlaws15]

Just a great post with a lot of information being posted.
Thanks

 

[Older The Better]

Thanks guys, it’s been a quiet year as far as intact points, found a lot of brokes but still happy to find them. They have a story to tell too.