Flint Quarry Tools

[ToddsPoint]

I found this piece in a small creek in SW MO. I knew it was an artifact but didn’t know exactly what it was. The creek had nodules of flint and there were signs of use by Indians looking for flint.

I recently read an article about ancient flint quarries and it looks like these were quarry tools. A girl from AR posted similar tools she found there. She hasn’t posted in months. I think these must be fairly common and possibly not picked up because they are not recognized. Look for them in creeks that are flint sources in AR and SW MO. I’ve quarried flint and often times you’ll see nodules that are partially buried in a dry creek bed and are difficult to extract without some sort of tool. I think these would work well to free them.

 

[CreekSide]

I found this piece in a small creek in SW MO. I knew it was an artifact but didn’t know exactly what it was. The creek had nodules of flint and there were signs of use by Indians looking for flint.View attachment 2225947

I recently read an article about ancient flint quarries and it looks like these were quarry tools. A girl from AR posted similar tools she found there. She hasn’t posted in months. I think these must be fairly common and possibly not picked up because they are not recognized. Look for them in creeks that are flint sources in AR and SW MO. I’ve quarried flint and often times you’ll see nodules that are partially buried in a dry creek bed and are difficult to extract without some sort of tool. I think these would work well to free them.View attachment 2225948

I have one that’s bigger but rather crude made from a sandstone type of rock maybe quartzite

 

[Trezurehunter]

Neat looking piece.

 

[Tnmountains]

Kinda looks like a quickly made awl or what would become a paddle bit drill.
Interesting as it is similar to this minus the tip.

 

[Tesorodeoro]

I found this piece in a small creek in SW MO. I knew it was an artifact but didn’t know exactly what it was. The creek had nodules of flint and there were signs of use by Indians looking for flint.View attachment 2225947

I recently read an article about ancient flint quarries and it looks like these were quarry tools. A girl from AR posted similar tools she found there. She hasn’t posted in months. I think these must be fairly common and possibly not picked up because they are not recognized. Look for them in creeks that are flint sources in AR and SW MO. I’ve quarried flint and often times you’ll see nodules that are partially buried in a dry creek bed and are difficult to extract without some sort of tool. I think these would work well to free them.View attachment 2225948

I like this because it focuses on something other than “arrowheads” real tools that real people used in their day to day life. There is so much we do not understand that has been lost to history and decay. I can tell you that at the source of obsidian, lies boulders of glass. Reduction had to involve heavier and possibly precise “tools” at the beginning which down the road ended up being small hammer stones and antlers.

Imagine if the study of our current culture focused mostly on bullets and knives! Classifying bullet styles and steel types.