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Got out one more time before the heat returns another broke… funny with such a slender spot in the notches it broke the way it did… huffaker in my neck of the woods
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so feel like I’m close to a good one but keep coming up short

First one was a point buy maybe on its way to being a drill? Base and tip are missing
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Next one i thought was interesting because it crosses over into the uniface post. It’s a flake that has been retouched along the edges, I think it’s the base of a triangular point judging by the geometry of the triangle points I find in the same place
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Next may just be a flake but it does seem to have a little extra work along the one edge but it doesn’t seem super functional
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Last is a larger broken biface that kind of shows an older flaking style, but again a little something going on in the break, maybe someone was considering making a drill or awl?
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From what I have been reading that last one is a classic pebble tool. I posted some articles last week, denticulates with barb like that are a common example. Might be into some old stuff. EDIT: I mean second to last one
 

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I have wondered how likely it would be for a point to be lost in an animal. this area has shell and broken pottery and flakes and such along with whole and broken points. I’ve kinda thought it was odd for a complete point to end up in the trash, but if you make a kill and maybe the shaft breaks free I can see how a point could get lost in an animal and discarded during processing…. Then again they were pretty efficient in their use of animals… but if you’re right about it hitting bone to break that way, it would be a plausible explanation.
 

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