Finds

[CaribooCam]

All flint chips but the one has been fashioned as a hand scraper but discarded before finished. Comes from a area/Layer of topsoil where artifacts are dated to 5000-6000 years old.

 

[quito]

Hmmm. I see a few scrapers in there.

How can you tell they were discarded before being finished and not just damaged?

 

[rock]

Hard to tell in the pic for me if there is any edge work on it. Sometimes they just knocked a piece off and used it for a quick tool.

 

[quito]

Hard to tell in the pic for me if there is any edge work on it. Sometimes they just knocked a piece off and used it for a quick tool.

And the edge work comes from re-sharpening the dull edge if they keep on using it.